Since Mars and Earth will be closest late in 2022 that makes it an ideal time to send to launch a spacecraft to take advantage of the closeness between the two planets.

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The United Arab Emirates' Hope mission, which arrived at Mars on Feb. 9, 2021, will conduct ...

Mariner 4, built by JPL in Pasadena, took the images on July 14, 1965. One of the mission's leaders reflects on decades of ...

Mars live stream start time, how to watch. The stream begins at 12 p.m. ET and will show new images every 50 seconds as they shoot through the Express’ Visual Monitoring Camera, a "long-lived ...

The new images by the Curiosity rover on Mars show "dramatic evidence" of ancient groundwater in crisscrossing low ridges, NASA said.

Get ready for a breathtaking journey through the skies of Mars with real aerial footage captured by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). This incredible spacecraft has been orbiting Mars for 15 ...

A spacecraft has sent back the most detailed photos yet of Mars' little moon. The United Arab Emirates' Amal spacecraft flew within 62 miles (100 kilometers) of Deimos last month and the close-up ...

Scientists have known for more than 17 years that auroras, vibrant light shows in the atmosphere, exist on Mars. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Cornell Univ. / Arizona State Univ. / E. W. Knutsen ...

In a first, viewers on Earth got a chance to see Mars nearly in real time. The European Space Agency streamed on YouTube historic live images directly from the red planet. The images, shared on ...

Axiom Space set for 3rd mission to International Space Station in January 07:45. Scientists got a rare look at the curving Martian landscape thanks to images captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey ...

An image captured by the Mars Express spacecraft in 2003 as it bid farewell to the Earth and the moon (Image credit: ESA). The Mars Express spacecraft arrived in orbit around Mars in December of ...

A new NASA-funded science mission will get to the bottom of how solar radiation strips away the tattered Martian atmosphere, and it doesn't involve the usual cast of contractors.The company at the ...