Mars, the Red Planet, has long been a destination for space movies. Here's a look at some of best, or just wildest, space movies of all time!

So it's not exactly a cosmic coincidence that "Mission to Mars" and "Red Planet," a pair of big-budget Tinseltown sci-fi projects centered around Earth's mysterious neighbor, were both launched ...

For centuries, Mars has captivated the human imagination. Its reddish appearance has earned it the nickname “The Red Planet,” but is it really as red as we’ve been led to believe? While Mars certainly ...

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

People from cultures across the world have been looking at Mars since ancient times. Because it appears reddish, it has often been called the red planet.

Mars was named by the Romans after their god of war because of its blood-red color. Egyptians called it "Her Desher," which means "the red one." Mars takes 687 days, or 1.8 years, to orbit the sun.

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 ...

Red Planet: Life on Mars. In a recent interview in Mercury Magazine, Red Planet producer Mark Canton states "Red Planet is a movie that crosses genres. It's science fiction, ...

Mars orbits at an average distance of 142 million miles (228 million km) from the sun. Its orbit is about 1.5 times the size of Earth's. Sunlight takes about 13 minutes to get to Mars, while it ...

The Red Planet Mars got its iconic colour from a combination of rusting and erosion over its 4.6-billion-year history. Mars was a once wetter place than the dry, barren world we know today.

NASA's famous Opportunity Mars rover is the star of a new documentary coming to Amazon Prime Video next month. Watch the trailer here.

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.