On November 18, 2013, NASA launched the MAVEN spacecraft to Mars. The name MAVEN stands for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile ...

In “A City on Mars,” Kelly and Zach Weinersmith investigate what life would be like for humans on the red planet, arguing ...

Was alien life in "hot water" on Mars billions of years ago? New evidence from the Martian meteorite "Black Beauty" suggests ...

Scientists are able to measure the rate of atmospheric and water loss and extrapolate back to deduce how thin atmosphere Mars' atmosphere might once have been, and how much water Mars may have had ...

Mars' Missing Atmosphere Could Be Hiding in Plain Sight Sep. 25, 2024 — New research suggests Mars' missing atmosphere -- which dramatically diminished 3.5 billion years ago -- could be locked ...

The book, published in November 2023 and winner of the 2024 Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize, explores the grim ...

Earlier in September, SpaceX launched its 7,000th Starlink satellite to orbit as part of its growing internet constellation.

The recently discovered asteroid COWECP5 entered Earth’s atmosphere at around 11:15 a.m. ET (17:15 C.E.T) on December 3 and ...

Mars’s atmosphere is primarily made of carbon dioxide ... until the continuous slow loss of carbon dioxide to space depleted the effectiveness of the dry ice thermal blanket.