Mars has two small, potato-shaped moons, called Phobos and Deimos ... and it has sent back beautiful pictures, and even sounds from the surface. Many other missions, both past and present ...

A ghostly Martian moonrise, starlit skies, and a mission chasing life’s traces—Perseverance captures more than just images.

One of the pictures ... understanding of Mars more broadly. For example, researchers suggest the new observations appear to challenge the long-standing theory that Mars' moons are captured ...

The soil looks almost silky. In our night sky, Mars is nothing more than a gleaming tangerine speck. In Perseverance’s pictures, it looks like not only a real planet but also a real place.

But on Friday afternoon, the European Space Agency offered the closest thing: the first "livestream" of Mars on YouTube, which posted pictures of ... image or two in near real-time," the ESA ...

NASA has explored Mars through the use of unmanned orbiters, rovers and satellites since the 1960s. In fact, scientists at NASA are currently working to transport samples from the red planet ...

This alien landscape looks like a film set, but these are real pictures taken by NASA’s Perseverance rover. Since landing on Mars in February 2021, Perseverance has been scouring the Martian ...

At Ars Technica, we’ll take a different route, finding inspiration from very real ... moons, Phobos gets more attention, including as a possible waystation for human missions to Mars.

one of Mars’ two moons. “It will be the first eclipse observed from the surface of another planet,” Bell said. The clearest, most detailed pictures of Mars should come from the color ...

It’s been long thought that Mars shines red due to the rusted iron minerals within the dust that covers the planet — but a study published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications suggests ...