In December 2023, scientists looking at Mars data stumbled across something completely unexpected—observations of an ...

Since its discovery in 1976, the Zwan-Wolf effect has only been found in planetary magnetospheres, never in an atmosphere.

NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft has confirmed, through nearly a decade of orbital observations, that solar wind physically strips gas from Mars’ upper atmosphere in a process called sputtering. That finding ...

What happens to Mars’ atmosphere when it gets hit with space weather? This is what a recent study published in Nature Communications hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated novel methods ...

When the surface of the Sun exploded with activity in May 2024, Earth was hit by the biggest solar storm in more than two decades. The video shown below—made from images captured by NASA’s Solar ...

(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 ...

Mars isn’t just dusty—it crackles with electricity. Scientists discovered that dust devils can generate tiny electric sparks, captured for the first time by Perseverance’s microphone. These static ...

Mars' atmosphere has been of interest to scientists for decades, especially as humanity looks to set up outposts on the Red Planet. Recently, the European Space Agency's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter gave ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover may have found some of the oldest rocks ever studied on Mars at an outcrop named "Arethusa." ...

A new video released by NASA/JPL documents six years of Curiosity rover's wheels while driving on Mars.