From The Expanse, to Red Mars, the idea of changing the red planet's atmosphere to one that's both breathable and temperate ...

Data from the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft shows that the little atmosphere Mars has sputters, ...

The team studying these sounds found that Mars' thin air, composed mostly of carbon dioxide, makes sound waves behave ...

The data was captured by NASA’s MAVEN, which entered a Mars-bound orbit back in 2014. Since then, the spacecraft has captured ...

When it comes to human colonization in our solar system, Mars often steals the spotlight. However, Titan—Saturn’s largest ...

A new study debates the complex ethical questions that must be considered if we're to terraform Mars and lays the blueprint ...

As on Earth, where average atmospheric pressure clocks in at around 101.3 kilopascals (kPa), areas of Mars experience differing levels of atmospheric pressure. The peak of Olympus Mons (the ...

Each of these steps reinforces the others." As Robert Zubrin stated in "The Case for Mars," this process would lead to an atmospheric pressure (atm) of about 300 millibars (30% of Earth's atm at ...

The study proposes that fine dust particles from the Martian atmosphere settle on sloped terrain. Events like wind gusts, meteorite impacts, or marsquakes then dislodge this accumulated dust, causing ...

It’s often the case that the more that planets are studied and understood, the more remote the possibility of inhabiting them seems. Mars, for example, is the closest celestial body to Earth in ...

Terraforming Mars would require warming the atmosphere to enable engineered microbes to create oxygen through photosynthesis, ...

For years, researchers have pictured strange dark streaks running across the dusty Martian surface, with some thinking that ...