NASA’s Perseverance rover is living up to its name as its total distance traveled approaches the length of a marathon. Over ...

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

Perseverance just landed on Mars, where it will search for signs of life. But space's cool factor doesn't begin or end there!

While scouring a 50-million-year-old crater on Mars, the Curiosity rover stumbled upon a polygon-shaped pattern that sort of looks like a giant reptile had shed its skin across the planet’s surface.

When atmospheric chemists Paul Crutzen and John Birks added smoke into their computer models of nuclear war scenarios, they ...

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

For decades, many believed Mars had no real atmosphere but new missions proved otherwise. Stunning images reveal a thin, ghostly layer that shapes weather and dust storms across the planet.

Blue sunsets, whirling dust devils, giant volcanoes, tiny moons, and marsquakes—there’s a lot to discover on Mars!

The atmosphere is between 5 million and 10 million times thinner than Earth's atmosphere. A very small body, far from the sun ...