Solar storms may affect weather on Mars when they strike at the same time as major Martian dust storms, a new study suggests ...

Today, Mars is a cold, dry planet covered in dust, but scientists believe it looked very different billions of years ago, ...

A new study by researchers including those at the University of Tokyo revealed that atmospheric gravity waves play a crucial role in driving latitudinal air currents on Mars, particularly at high ...

(NEW YORK) — Mars is a cold, dry, desert-like planet. But billions of years ago, scientific evidence suggests that it had a thick atmosphere, which kept it warm enough to support flowing water on its ...

NASA MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) mission scientists have uncovered a key puzzle piece in understanding certain types of auroras on Mars, finding that they form in a similar way to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mars has almost no breathable oxygen. Here's why that matters, and how NASA's MOXIE could help future astronauts survive. (CREDIT: ...

What happens to Mars’ atmosphere when it gets hit with space weather? This is what a recent study published in Nature Communications hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated novel methods ...

For years, scientists have puzzled over how Mars lost the thick atmosphere it once had. That atmosphere was essential for liquid water to exist on the planet's surface, billions of years ago. Today, ...

It's not entirely clear how neighboring planet Mars went from a presumably life-supporting planet to a place as dead as all others in the solar system. We do know, however, that whatever water and ...

Half a century after NASA first placed working hardware on Mars, the agency is preparing to explore not only the planet’s surface, but its skies. The story began on July 20, 1976, when Viking 1 ...