The current image of Mars as an arid and hostile desert contrasts sharply with the history revealed by its surface. Channels, ...

For years, Mars seemed like a dry, airless world but new images from orbiters and rovers reveal a thin, dynamic atmosphere.

On January 29, 1989, a Soviet space probe named Phobos 2 arrived in orbit around Mars. This was the last space mission ...

MAVEN was built to last in orbit until 2030 — that's not looking likely anymore.

(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 ...

However, the research from a Strathclyde University academic found that ice located beneath the surface of Mars would provide ...

Advances in technology have reopened the debate over terraforming Mars, shifting it from an impossible dream to a long-term scientific and ethical question.

(Nanowerk News) An international team in which the University of the Basque Country (EHU) scientists Ricardo Hueso and Agustín Sánchez- Lavega are collaborating has discovered electrical discharges in ...

An artistic illustration of the MAVEN orbiter and Mars NASA / GSFC After 12 years in space, the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) orbiter has fallen silent, with NASA scientists back on ...

If there ever was life on Mars—and that's a huge "if"—conditions during the planet's infancy most likely would have supported it, according to a study led by University of Arizona researchers. NASA's ...