The findings could help answer a longstanding question about how Mars transformed from a potentially habitable world with ...

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 ...

If humans ever decide to visit Uranus, they would die within five seconds. It would be quite a catastrophic journey before ...

After surviving the extreme, long-haul journey, you'd next have to navigate all 13 of Uranus' dusty rings - a bit like a spy ...

Lithium carbon dioxide batteries could be a gamechanger for everything from renewable-energy storage to colonising Mars.

Scientists are analysing the smells of space – from the aroma onboard space stations to planets hundreds of light years away ...

On Earth, atmospheric pressure is due to the total mass of gases contained in its dense atmosphere. Here, at sea level, the pressure is equivalent to 101,325 pascals; on Mars it barely reaches 600 ...

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 ...

When the first spacecraft flew by Mars in 1965, we determined that the atmospheric pressure was only around ... to “biogenic” elements like carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen and a dozen ...

When oxygen from the water bound with iron in the olivine, it released hydrogen ... s atmospheric pressure worth of carbon ...

which supplied enough hydrogen to build up in the atmosphere over millions of years. During the fluctuations between warm and cold climates, the chemistry of Mars' atmosphere was also fluctuating.