Artist's rendering of a solar storm hitting Mars and stripping ions from the planet's upper atmosphere. Mars' atmosphere, once as thick as if not thicker than Earth's today, is leaking into space. "We ...

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

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

Electrical sparks inside Martian dust devils have been detected for the first time, reshaping how scientists understand the ...

NASA has lost contact with its MAVEN spacecraft that has been orbiting Mars for more than a decade. Here's what we know.

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 ...

MAVEN is therefore pretty important to ongoing Mars operations, and working out why it dropped out of communication may help protect other missions from similar mishaps.

Mars changed from a blue world with water to a red desert because its atmosphere escaped into space over billions of years.

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NASA engineers are working to restore communication with the MAVEN Mars orbiter after the spacecraft went silent in December ...

A key tracer used to estimate how much atmosphere Mars lost can change depending on the time of day and the surface temperature on the Red Planet, according to new observations by NASA-funded ...