What happens when a solar superstorm hits Mars? Thanks to the European Space Agency's Mars orbiters, we now know: glitching ...

What happens when a solar superstorm hits Mars? Thanks to the European Space Agency's Mars orbiters, we now know: glitching spacecraft and a ...

You’ve probably followed the Mars rover missions on and off for years, watching those red-dust landscapes scroll across your ...

A new image captured by the Mars Express orbiter offers a striking view of one of the most heavily cratered regions on Mars. The image shows part of Arabia Terra, a vast plain located in the planet’s ...

Mars might have its own defense mechanism against life from Earth, in a kind of reverse of "The War of the Worlds" scenario ...

The March 3 total lunar eclipse has been and gone, astounding skywatchers around the world with a breathtaking display of ...

Hardy bacteria in a lab survived pressures comparable to an asteroid strike on the red planet, suggesting a hypothetical scenario in which our planet was seeded with life.

The solar system formed about 4.6 billion years ago from a condensed nebula, and with it our planet Earth, which was a ball ...

Sifting through 180,000 observations, the team found a single event. We may have detected a whistler wave on the Red Planet.

Since the 1970s, planetary geologists have known that volcanic features cover large swaths of Mars. Early Mariner 9 images ...

While sifting through the extensive data collected by NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft over the last decade, scientists discovered a familiar type of electromagnetic ...

A 6.5-foot Mars sand ridge called Hazyview reveals how strong, steady winds once shaped the planet’s surface and soil ...