NASA’s veteran Mars orbiter MAVEN has fallen ominously silent, cutting off a decade-long stream of atmospheric data that reshaped how scientists think about the red planet’s past. After weeks without ...

NASA lost communication with its MAVEN probe nearly a month ago, and efforts to re-establish a connection have been futile.

How did Mars maintain surface liquid water billions of years ago? This is what a recent study published in AGU Advances hopes ...

A NASA spacecraft that has been circling Mars for more than two decades has spotted something it never has before in well over 100,000 orbits of the Red Planet. On a morning horizon in May, the ...

The Martian polar vortex exhibits significantly lower temperatures (approximately 40°C colder) within its core compared to the surrounding atmosphere, a phenomenon observed through the use of the ...

NASA has lost contact with its MAVEN spacecraft that has been orbiting Mars for more than a decade. The orbiter, one of three zooming around Mars' atmosphere, had been working as expected before it ...

While Mars doesn't directly control Earth's climate, its gravity subtly influences our planet's orbit and tilt over vast timescales. These predictable ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Mars has wave-like soil patterns that match those found on Earth. This image, taken from the Mars ...

Twenty years’ worth of imagery captured by two orbiters circling Mars has revealed raging winds on the red planet. Wind on the barren planet would be invisible if it weren’t for Mars’ iconic red dust, ...