Shaped like an oversized pocket watch, Beagle 2 hitched a ride to the Red Planet aboard Europe’s Mars Express orbiter but crash-landed on the planet rather than bouncing to a stop with airbags.
Measuring only about 17 miles at its widest point, Phobos is roughly 157 times smaller in diameter than Earth's moon. Mars' other moon Deimos is even smaller. It's not the first time a NASA ...
A constellation of Starlink satellites as seen from Earth. Elon Musk-owned SpaceX is working on a Starlink equivalent for Mars that will allow relatively quick communication to and fro from the ...
Red Planet is a lavishly produced sci-fi adventure starring Val Kilmer and Carrie-Anne Moss (the girl from The Matrix) as part of a team sent to investigate Mars as a possible new home for humanity.
If Earth were the size of a nickel, Mars would be about as big as a raspberry. The Red Planet: Mars is actually many colors. At the surface, we see colors such as brown, gold, and tan. The reason ...