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

For centuries, Mars has captivated the human imagination. Its reddish appearance has earned it the nickname “The Red Planet,” ...

Your blood is also red because of a mixture of iron and oxygen in a molecule called hemoglobin. So in a way, the ancient ...

Mars isn't a bright, fire-engine red, but the iron oxide in its rocks makes it appear redder than other planets, especially ...

Mars is one of the eight planets in our solar system. ... Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. ... Mars' nickname comes from the color it appears to be.

It's been long thought that Mars shines red due to the rusted iron minerals within the dust that covers the planet -- but a study published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications suggests ...

A new study claims that a mineral found in Mars' dust called ferrihydrite, which forms in the presence of cool water, is likely what gives the planet its reddish hue.

The color red and the planet Mars go together like Earth and its oceans or Saturn and its rings.However, our understanding of how the Red Planet got its signature hue might be wrong. A new ...

Mars is a dry, rocky, cold, and dusty planet. Its dust is the key to its iconic red color. Now, scientists say there’s more to the story ( Credit: NASA/JPL/USGS ) ...

Real reason for planet's colour could point to extraterrestrial life The colour of Mars has been hotly debated over the years, as has whether there has ever been life on the planet Comments ...

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 ...

“Mars is still the Red Planet,” said Dr. Adomas Valantina, who is a postdoctoral fellow at Brown University and lead author of the study.“It’s just that our understanding of why Mars is red has been ...