Why it's so special: These odd, fan-like features on the surface of Mars are geysers of gas and dust near the planet's south ...

This NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter image, acquired on May 13, 2018, during winter at the South Pole of Mars, shows a carbon dioxide ice cap covering the region and as the sun returns in the spring, ...

Why it's so special: These odd, fan-like features on the surface of Mars are geysers of gas and dust near the planet's south pole that are ... to the sun. —Space photo of the week: Look into ...

Mars' southern hemisphere absorbs a lot of the sun's energy during the Red Planet's spring, and that may be causing Mars' dust storms, a new study suggests.

February stargazing over Butler is fantastic for many reasons, but this year there’s a one-two-three punch of bright planets adding to the thrill! If you live with the winter cold, don’t let that ...

Mars is fun through a scope because it’s the only other planet for which you have a chance of seeing surface ... the North Star Polaris that shines above the Earth’s north pole.

Mars is home to perhaps ... discovered in the 1970s, when images from the Viking probes showed a difference in height and in density of impact craters. The surface density of craters (the number ...