For years, scientists have puzzled over how Mars lost the thick atmosphere it once had. That atmosphere was essential for ...

A new study argues that Mars could act as a testing ground for habitat restoration, with lessons learned helping to fight ...

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

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

The authors also noted why colonising Mars would not be good for science. Lanza pointed out that terraforming Mars will ...

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

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

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 atmospheric pressure on Mars is less than 1 percent of Earth's, averaging about 6 millibars, compared to Earth's 1,013 millibars at sea level, and the average surface temperature is about -80 ...

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 ...