The data was captured by NASA’s MAVEN, which entered a Mars-bound orbit back in 2014. Since then, the spacecraft has captured ...

Data from the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft shows that the little atmosphere Mars has sputters, ...

The findings could help answer a longstanding question about how Mars transformed from a potentially habitable world with ...

New insights into Mars' water cycle reveal that ancient water may have vanished underground, reshaping our understanding of ...

Additionally, this method can only sample near sunset and sunrise because of Earth's proximity to the sun, limiting our view of Mars' atmosphere. Moreover, traditional radio occultation suffers ...

A view of the icy hills in the Australe Scopuli ... The spacecraft compiled the most complete map of the chemical composition of Mars’ atmosphere, observed the planet’s moons Phobos and ...

A view of the Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars on May 11 ... changes in temperature across just a few feet. "Because the atmosphere is so thin, heat from the Sun easily escapes this planet ...

underscoring the view of Mars as a desert planet currently inhospitable to life – at least on its surface. The data indicated that formation of these streaks is driven by the accumulation of ...

Mars is a dead world ... also provides a glimpse of something you can't usually see at all—the Martian atmosphere. The planet has a thin envelope of gas (mostly carbon dioxide), about 1% ...

Releasing glitter-sized iron rods into Mars’s atmosphere could warm the planet ... In the face of new evidence, physicists are starting to view the cosmos not as made up of disparate layers ...

A ghostly Martian moonrise, starlit skies, and a mission chasing life’s traces—Perseverance captures more than just images.