Mars, once a much wetter and more dynamic planet, is now a dry and inhospitable desert. The mystery of how the red planet ...

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

Creating a composite photograph of the images taken by the Color and Stereo Surface Imaging System (CaSSIS) aboard the Trace Gas Orbiter, ESA scientists found that the dust and gas layers of Mars' ...

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 ...

(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.

NASA lost contact with its MAVEN Mars orbiter in December 2025 after more than a decade of operation. A solar conjunction, where Mars and Earth are on opposite sides of the sun, has temporarily ...

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 ...