Mars is often described as silent, barren, and still. But beneath its dusty surface and cold skies, something unusual has ...

For decades, scientists treated Martian dust storms as mostly mechanical events, driven by wind and sunlight rather than ...

The discovery by the Mars rovers of carbonate in sedimentary rock on the Red Planet has enabled planetary scientists to rewind the clock and tell the tale of how Mars' warmer, watery climate 3.5 ...

Researchers have developed a Martian atmospheric evolution model to propose a new theory about Mars's past. Although Mars is currently a cold, dry planet, geological evidence suggests that liquid ...

Five years after NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft entered into orbit around Mars, data from the mission has led to the creation of a map of electric current systems in the Martian atmosphere. “These currents ...

Multiple plans exist to explore Mars in the coming decades using robotic and crewed missions. The ultimate goal of these missions is to determine whether human beings could live there someday. This ...

While humans living on Mars is the stuff of sci-fi movies for now, scientists may have figured out a major step toward colonization, by in effect creating global warming on the planet. It could be ...

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Mars and Venus, two planets with distinctly unique characteristics, also differ significantly in their placement within the ...