Mars has an active, electrically charged surface where dust storms and spinning dust devils regularly move and reshape the landscape. Mars is often portrayed as a dry, empty world, but the planet is ...

NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft has provided the first direct evidence of atmospheric sputtering on Mars, revealing how solar wind ...

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

This doesn’t mean Mars causes ice ages on its own. Orbital cycles are only part of the picture. Earth’s oceans, atmosphere, ...

Researchers discovered Mars subtly affects Earth’s orbit and axial tilt. These small changes help trigger ice ages and influence global climate cycles consistently over millions of years.

Scientists have traced ancient Martian shorelines inside a giant canyon, revealing where a vast ocean once stood and why ...

LIGHTHAVEN, ONE kilometre down Telegraph Avenue from the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, is a rambling conference facility which dedicates itself to “hosting events and programmes ...

Researchers worked out the ocean's size by finding how high the water level got in the Solar System’s largest canyon system.

One of the great unsolved problems in modern planetary science is written on the surface of Mars. Mars has canyons that were carved by rivers, so it was once warm enough for liquid water. How—and ...

Advances in synthetic biology, planetary engineering, and ultra-low-cost launch systems have dramatically altered how ...

When astronauts set foot on Mars, it will be one of humanity’s greatest milestones. These first steps will be the result of decades of research, engineering, and imagination coming together, marking ...