While Mars today only has a wispy remnant of an atmosphere, it may once have had one hundreds of times thicker with a ...

Viking consisted of two twin orbiters and landers, with experimental chambers in the landers to conduct three biology ...

In the search for habitable exoplanets, atmospheric conditions play a key role in determining if a planet can sustain liquid ...

The odds for life existing on other planets has just skyrocketed after a NASA rover unearthed new evidence on Mars. The odds for life existing on other planets just skyrocketed. NASA’s stoic ...

A rare glimpse into the wintry conditions of the Mars north polar vortex has shown that temperatures inside the vortex are far colder than outside, and that the permanent darkness that winter brings ...

A rocky, Earth-size planet located in our Milky Way galaxy may have an atmosphere around it, according to new research, ...

While the early climate of Mars remains an open question, a new study suggests that its atmosphere may have been hospitable ...

For the first time, scientists have caught a key driver of the ongoing erosion of the atmosphere of Mars in action. It took more than nine years' worth of satellite data, but a team led by planetary ...

Mars is a planet filled with extreme phenomena, boasting towering volcanoes, vast canyons, and massive dust storms that can shroud the entire planet in a red haze for weeks. However, above its ...

Unlike Earth’s orange-red sunsets, Mars shows a blue sunset. This happens due to fine dust particles in the Martian ...

Simulations show how the low density on Mars affects lift, aiding in the design of small, flapping-wing exploration crafts.

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 ...