Your blood is also red because of a mixture of iron and oxygen in a molecule called hemoglobin. So in a way, the ancient connection between the planet Mars and blood wasn’t completely wrong. Rust, ...

Mars’ red color may be related to a habitable past: study The Red Planet may have had an abundance of water billions of years ago. By Brie Stimson Fox News.

Mars is known as the Red Planet, but scientists are still learning about what gives the planet its distinctive color. New research shows why the planet's surface has its rusty hue, and the ...

However, the researchers for this study discovered that ferrihydrite is responsible for Mars’ red color, which is a mineral that forms in cold, watery environments. “Mars is still the Red Planet,” ...

Earthlings have known about the existence of Mars, the fourth planet from the sun it also orbits, since ancient times. Although the celestial body is located 140 million miles away from Earth ...

This is what the Mars Ingenuity helicopter -- the first powered aircraft on another planet -- sounds like from a distance. The material that gives Mars its red color also exists on Earth, but the ...

PASADENA, CALIF. — Less than a year since beginning the prime science phase of its mission, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has passed a mission-success milestone for the amount of d… ...