ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft is progressing further every day on its journey to the Red Planet. Everything is set for arrival at Mars on the night of 25 December 2003, after a journey of about 400 ...

A new image shows a striking contrast between Mars' desert-like terrain against dark deposits of volcanic ash.

Windswept piles of dust, or layers of ice? ESA's Mars Express has revisited one of Mars's most mysterious features to clarify its composition. Its findings suggest layers of water ice stretching ...

OMEGA image of the southern polar cap of Mars 18 January (ESA – OMEGA) Mars Express, ESA’s first mission to Mars, will reach its final orbit on 28 January. It has already been producing stunning ...

The European Space Agency's Mars Express has studied the Red Planet for 20 years. It's hard to believe it has been that long, but the Express has given us a lot of great data to build on our goals to ...

For half a century, something has been darkening one of the largest plains on Mars. The European Space Agency revealed in ...

When NASA's Viking orbiters first photographed this same spot in 1976, the dark ash was barely visible.

The European Space Agency's Mars Express has captured images of spiders on Mars. However, the "spiders" aren't the usual insects you would expect when hearing that word, though they do resemble the ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. You’re a spacecraft at Mars. You’ve just reached the epic milestone of ...