This sand dune, known as Dingo Gap, was crossed by Mars Curiosity in 2014. This image has been slightly 'white balanced' as opposed to being shown in true color, which enables the differences in the ...

We may have been wrong about how Mars got its characteristic red hue, a new study reveals. The Red Planet owes its ruddy complexion to rusted iron minerals, dispersed across billions of years by winds ...

What can Mars’ red hue that’s been observed for thousands of years teach us about when water existed on its surface potentially millions, or even billions, of years ago? This is what a recent study ...

Scientists might have been wrong about perhaps the most obvious thing about Mars: the red colour behind its nickname Earthlings have known about the existence of Mars, the fourth planet from the sun ...

We’ve always known Mars as the Red Planet — but it turns out, we may have had the reason why wrong. If so, it could revise much of what we know about the history of our smaller neighbor planet. In a ...

Mars' distinctive red color comes from the mineral ferrihydrite, which only forms in the presence of cool water, a new study claims. Ferrihydrite also forms at a lower temperature than other minerals ...

The rover, NASA's most sophisticated yet, arrived at the red planet last week. See the Martian landscape come to life in the first high-resolution, color image released by NASA from the hazard cameras ...

A stunning new true-color mosaic of Mars is transforming how scientists—and the public—see the Red Planet. For decades, Mars ...

Ingenuity, NASA's Martian helicopter, sent back color photos from one of its recent flights on the Red Planet Jason Hahn is a former Human Interest and Sports Reporter for PEOPLE. He started at PEOPLE ...

NASA has released the first color photos that the Ingenuity helicopter took of the surface of Mars. Ingenuity took three photos during its second successful flight, when it was 5.2 meters above Mars' ...