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 ...

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

After nearly a decade in orbit, NASA's MAVEN spacecraft has, for the first time, directly observed the process that ...

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

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

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 ...

Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and one of our closest neighbors in space. But it’s not a very welcoming place for an Earthling to visit.

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

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

The symbol P and T represent the operating pressure and temperature ... subcritical cycle is the most suitable choice on Mars. The Martian atmosphere (95.7% CO 2, 2.7% N 2, and 1.6% Ar) as ...