The study revealed that another mineral, ferrihydrite, a water-rich ferric oxyhydroxide, is widely present in Martian dust ...

For centuries – maybe millennia – humans have wondered how Mars gets its red hue, but a recent study has some answers.

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. In a ...

It’s not martian regolith, bu it’s the closest chemical match available to the dirt in Gale Crater. (Image: Swinburne University) Every school child can tell you these days that Mars is red because it ...

Dead Planets Society is a podcast that takes outlandish ideas about how to tinker with the cosmos – from snapping the moon in half to causing a gravitational wave apocalypse – and subjects them to the ...

A breathtaking natural phenomenon has turned Iran's Hormuz Island into a global talking point, as its coastlines transformed ...

See Hormuz Island`s stunning red sea! Learn the natural science behind Iran`s `blood rain` phenomenon. Harmless iron oxide creates a breathtaking spectacle. Click to discover!