The study suggests that Mars has been self-regulating as a desert planet, with habitability being the exception, rather than ...

As the sun grew hotter, so did Mars, prompting much of its atmospheric carbon dioxide to rain out and ultimately get locked ...

One of the great unsolved problems in modern planetary science is written on the surface of Mars. Mars has canyons that were ...

New research shows how Mars may have undone its own habitability, while Earth stayed stable enough to support life.

For years, scientists have puzzled over how Mars lost the thick atmosphere it once had. That atmosphere was essential for liquid water to exist on the planet’s surface, billions of years ago.

Sheel and his team found that when the atmosphere of Mars is laden with dust, the atmosphere becomes less conductive, ...

The findings could help answer a longstanding question about how Mars transformed from a potentially habitable world with rivers and lakes into the frozen desert we see today.

Nearly a decade’s worth of data went into the first direct observation of sputtering on Mars, which researchers believe ...

Back in 2013 American space agency NASA launched something called the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft. The role of the Lockheed Martin-built piece of hardware is to study ...

To truly understand how Mars’ atmosphere has changed over the years, researchers took a closer look at nine years’ worth of data. NASA’s Curiosity rover taking a selfie on Mars.

Arsia Mons, which dwarfs Earth's tallest volcanoes, and its two neighboring volcanoes are often surrounded by water ice clouds, especially in the early morning. The image released Friday marks the ...

Algae grown under Mars-like conditions could make bioplastic building materials for structures to harbor life in space.