A rover recently captured sounds of lightning crackling on Mars, over a decade after scientists uncovered the first evidence ...

MAVEN has remained silent since Dec. 6 despite repeated attempts to contact it, according to NASA. As part of the recovery ...

Mars has an active, electrically charged surface where dust storms and spinning dust devils regularly move and reshape the ...

(NEW YORK) — Mars is a cold, dry, desert-like planet. But billions of years ago, scientific evidence suggests that it had a thick atmosphere, which kept it warm enough to support flowing water on its ...

Scientists haven't heard from the MAVEN orbiter since December 6. It had been studying the Martian atmosphere for over a ...

It's not entirely clear how neighboring planet Mars went from a presumably life-supporting planet to a place as dead as all others in the solar system. We do know, however, that whatever water and ...

So, Mars does have storms, but they’re far drier and dustier than the thunderstorms on Earth. Scientists are continually ...

All evidence points to Mars having had a carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere billions of years ago, but insufficient carbonates in Martian soil challenge this theory. Now, a new study using data from ...

A Mars spacecraft has now been AWOL for more than a month. But NASA hasn't given up hope of restoring contact with the MAVEN ...

New research suggests Mars was once a blue planet, as scientists identify river deltas and signs of a vast ancient ocean on ...

Mars once looked far more like Earth, with a thicker atmosphere and liquid water pooling on its surface, yet today it is a frozen desert where even a thin wisp of air struggles to hold on. NASA’s ...