A new image from NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter reveals an extraordinary sight: a massive formation breaking through Mars’ early morning cloud cover. Taken just before dawn on May 2, 2025, and ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA.—NASA’s Maven spacecraft entered orbit around Mars for an unprecedented study of the red planet’s atmosphere following a 442 million-mile (710 million kilometre) journey ...

Electrons released when cosmic rays strike water-ice can provide energy for microbes and facilitate the formation of complex ...

To truly understand how Mars' atmosphere has changed over the years, researchers took a closer look at nine years' worth of data. The data was captured by NASA's MAVEN, which entered a Mars-bound ...

All evidence points to Mars having had a carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere billions of years ago, but insufficient carbonates in Martian soil challenge this theory. Now, a new study using data from ...

The lack of a planetary magnetic field does not prevent Mars from having auroras, though. The ESA's Mars Express spacecraft spotted evidence of discrete auroras for the first time back in 2004.

A meteorite from Mars that landed in the Moroccan desert 14 months ago has given Alberta researchers an opportunity to discover more information about that planet.

Mars probably had a thick atmosphere that was warm enough to support liquid water, but it has since been stripped away by solar wind, NASA said on Thursday. The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile ...

All evidence points to Mars having had a carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere billions of years ago, but insufficient carbonates in Martian soil challenge this theory. Now, a new study using data from ...

All evidence points to Mars having had a carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere billions of years ago, but insufficient carbonates in Martian soil challenge this theory. Now, a new study using data from ...