Mars orbits at an average distance of 142 million miles (228 million km) from the sun. Its orbit is about 1.5 times the size of Earth's. Sunlight takes about 13 minutes to get to Mars, while it ...

Here are seven interesting things that you may not already know about NASA’s Mars Perseverance mission: NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance is all set to launch today — interesting facts you may ...

The highest mountain… is on Mars! Olympus Mons is the tallest mountain in our solar system, standing at roughly 13 miles high. It’s about two and a half times Mount Everest's height above sea ...

With a radius of 2,106 miles, Mars is the seventh largest planet in our solar system and about half the diameter of Earth. Its surface gravity is 37.5 percent of Earth’s. Mars rotates on its ...

On a flyby of Mars, the European Space Agency (ESA) captured a rare photo of its second moon - but what do we know about it? It's called Deimos, and is much smaller and more mysterious than Phobos ...