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 ...

NASA's MAVEN spacecraft, which has orbited Mars since 2014, went quiet abruptly in early December. Efforts to reestablish a ...

NASA’s veteran Mars orbiter MAVEN has fallen ominously silent, cutting off a decade-long stream of atmospheric data that reshaped how scientists think about the red planet’s past. After weeks without ...

(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 ...

Billions of years ago, Mars is hypothesized to have been a much warmer and wetter planet featuring active volcanoes and vast liquid water oceans. However, something happened that caused the Red Planet ...

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 ...

Mars at sunset reveals dozens of razor-thin atmospheric layers in stunning detail, helping scientists map dust and ice patterns.

Mars' atmosphere is one of the planet's most scientifically controversial characteristics. We know that the Red Planet's atmosphere is incredibly sparse, but mounting evidence suggests it once ...

A new study may solve a central mystery of the planet’s 4.6-billion-year history. Despite increasing evidence that water flowed on Mars billions of years ago, scientists have been mystified by what ...