Mars, often depicted as a barren red planet, is far from lifeless. With its thin atmosphere and dusty surface, it is an ...

Mars isn’t just dusty—it crackles with electricity. Scientists discovered that dust devils can generate tiny electric sparks, ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover recorded sounds from Mars dust devils and revealed tiny electric sparks shaping the planet’s ...

When a massive dust storm swept across Mars, it altered the planet’s surface and atmosphere for months. After the storm ...

Mars has long been pictured as a cold, quiet desert, its famous dust storms more cinematic backdrop than active player in the ...

New evidence from NASA, published in the journal Nature, shows that the Martian surface might be even less hospitable than ...

By Alison VerbeckMars, often depicted as a barren red planet, is far from lifeless. With its thin atmosphere and dusty surface, it is an energetic and ...

SANTA CRUZ — Xi Zhang, a professor of Earth and planetary science at UC Santa Cruz, has discovered that an exoplanet classed ...

Mars often feels finished. Mapped, scanned, labelled in broad strokes. Yet every so often, something unsettles that sense of ...

Talk of Mars often jumps straight to rockets and boots on red soil, but much of the work happens quietly, long before any ...

This discovery adds a new dimension to the geoscience of Mars and opens up new possibilities for the search for life outside ...

Scientists have identified eight mysterious water-shaped caves on Mars, unlike volcanic tunnels, raising fresh hopes these ...