Like our moon, Deimos is tidally locked to Mars, meaning the same side always faces the planet—the only side visible to ...

More than 3 billion years ago, Mars intermittently had liquid water on its surface. After the planet lost much of its ...

The results of Hera's flyby could ultimately tell us whether Deimos is a captured asteroid or made from debris from a giant ...

Research published late last year indicated “seismic discontinuities in the Martian crust” that scientists believe could be an indicator of liquid water under the Martian surface, raising the ...

When a mudflat crumbles on Earth, or an ice sheet splinters on one of Jupiter's moons (Europa), or an ancient lakebed breaks ...

A space probe named Hera captured images of Mars' small Deimos moon while on a mission to examine an asteroid.

Since its arrival on the Martian surface five years ago, NASA’s Perseverance rover has been busy scouring the Red Planet for ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover found pale rocks containing kaolinite on Mars, a mineral that forms in warm, wet conditions.

A recent study of data from multiple missions shows the Red Planet may get its name from an iron mineral that formed when ...

A new study in the journal Nature Communications reveals that Mars is red for very much the same reason it may have once been home to life — namely, that it was a wet planet. This is in line with ...

These studies show that Mars is bombarded by meteorites far more often than previously thought — about 2.5 times more ...

Nuclear pulse propulsion is a technology that would work. It was being developed in the 1960s. It was stopped because of the nuclear test ban treaty and ...