Mars Express

Watch a video from Mars Express orbiter showing Mars' moons - Phobos and Deimos - crossing in the sky. ESA released these images on March 1, 2025. The post Watch as Mars' moons trade places in the sky first appeared on EarthSky.

"I'll always remember the first time I saw those iridescent clouds and was sure at first it was some color artifact."

Planetary scientists using the High Resolution Stereo Camera on ESA's Mars Express spacecraft have captured stunning images of an enigmatic landscape in the Australe Scopuli region of the Red Planet's southern hemisphere.

Want to do some cloudspotting on Mars? Researchers in Germany have created the new Cloud Atlas of Mars, with 20 years of images from the Mars Express orbiter. The post New Cloud Atlas of Mars for cloudspotting on the red planet first appeared on EarthSky.

Researchers recently presented a stunning cloud atlas of Mars: a database containing 20 years' worth of images of clouds and storms observed on the red planet.

Researchers recently found a possible reservoir of liquid water more than 11 kilometres below Mars's surface – the latest in a long series of potential water spottings on the Red Planet, hinting at its temperate past

The creepy patterns were observed by the European Space Agency's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter.

A natural labyrinth.

Scientists and engineers are making progress on drilling technology that could access Mars' seemingly vast stores of near-surface water ice.

The structure was found alongside possible glacier ice, which has implications for Martian habitability

You never can tell when planetary scientists are going to discover a new giant volcano on Mars, but when it happens, I step out to the porch and raise my Lunar and Planetary Society Core-Mantle Boundary Rift Discovery flag so all the neighbors will know, and this week, that flag was flapping in the breeze.

Different spaceborne perspectives of a 2021 solar storm in 2021 reveal new insights on dangers in space posed by solar particles.

New research has shown that disease-causing bacteria carried in the human gut can also survive in Martian soil, a discovery with implications for future...

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Huge deposits detected near a likely landing spot of future astronauts

Just a few days after losing contact with the Mars helicopter Ingenuity, NASA has announced that it has regained communications with the plucky helicopter.

The potential discovery suggests that Mars once looked very different from how it appears today and could once have sustained life.

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"There is no planet B."

The minimum distance between Mars and Earth is about 34 million miles, according to NASA.