ESA's first mission to another world, the Mars Express orbiter, began circling the Red Planet on June 2, 2003. Ever since, ...

The Mars Express orbiter launched to the Red Planet. Twenty years later, ESA has delivered a high resolution color image of ...

Mars, or the "Red Planet," has intrigued scientists for centuries with its reddish hue. Recently, a new study has attributed the red color to a mineral with a high iron content, which could tell us ...

Creating a composite photograph of the images taken by the Color and Stereo Surface Imaging System (CaSSIS) aboard the Trace Gas Orbiter, ESA scientists found that the dust and gas layers of Mars' ...

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has captured a magnificent postcard from the Red Planet — a 360-degree color view that offers a glimpse of the rover's colorful and apparently diverse surroundings.

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 ...

A stereo camera operated by the UA will be carried aboard a Mars orbiter in 2016 as part of a joint program by NASA and the European Space Agency to explore the red planet, the UA announced Tuesday.