Dr. Shannon Curry, principal investigator for NASA’s MAVEN mission, explains how Mars is gradually losing its atmosphere through a process called sputtering. Over ten years, MAVEN tracked how solar ...

In a new paper, a group of planetary scientists, biologists, and engineers make the case for treating Mars as the ultimate ...

Strange, dark streaks on Martian slopes that once hinted at flowing water are now believed to be dry dust slides, revealed ...

As for today, the environments on Mars that could potentially support life are few and far between, and it's all about ...

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

“In the universe, an absolute vacuum is rare, and most of the universe is very low-density high-temperature plasma,” said Chris Impey, an astronomer at the University of Arizona. “In principle, sound ...

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

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 ...

Images taken of Mars from orbit dating back as far as the 1970s have captured curious dark streaks running down the sides of ...

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