On Thursday 16 January at 1.17am (GMT), Mars will reach opposition. This means it will be positioned on the opposite side of the Earth from the sun, and the three will form an almost straight line ...

Researchers bombarded these hybrid lifeforms with a year's worth of Martian radiation in just 5 hours — and they survived, ...

Six of our solar system's planets are due to line up in our night sky in a strange phenomenon often called a "planetary parade" over the coming days, but one will temporarily disappear from view.

Earth and Mars routinely align in what astronomers call an opposition, with Earth in the middle and Mars and the sun on opposite sides. It occurs every two years, but only rarely when Mars is at ...

For the first time on a global scale, 20 years of observations on Mars have been condensed into a single study led by ...

The Close Approach happens every two years, but Tuesday's encounter at 38.6 million miles away will be the closest to Earth that Mars gets until 2035 Joelle Goldstein is a Senior News Editor on ...

NASA's Martian explorer Curiosity has found yet another mystery on the rocky road towards Mars' boxwork region.

Mars will have a close encounter with the moon. It comes after the Red Planet reached opposition in January. The planet positioned directly opposite the Sun, as seen from Earth. This alignment ...

The rover talks to earth by sending radio waves from a ultra-high frequency antenna to Mars orbiters that relay the message to NASA’s Deep Space Network Antenna on Earth. It can take anywhere ...

Mars will have a close encounter with the moon. It comes after the Red Planet reached opposition in January. The planet positioned directly opposite the Sun, as seen from Earth. This alignment made ...