Mars didn’t always look like the barren world we see today. Over billions of years, the Sun’s solar wind stripped away much of its atmosphere, helping transform it from a warmer, wetter planet into a ...

Space.com editor-in-chief Tariq Malik gives you a peek at the biggest piece of Mars discovered on Earth. Currently on display ...

If I were on Mars, how often would I see Earth transit the Sun? Steven RiserConyers, Georgia From Mars, Earth transits the Sun four times in a 284-year cycle. The transits occur in either May or ...

What happens when a solar superstorm hits Mars? Thanks to the European Space Agency's Mars orbiters, we now know: glitching ...

New research suggests Mars may have remained habitable much longer than scientists once thought. Ancient sand dunes in Gale Crater appear to have been soaked by underground water billions of years ago ...

A huge solar storm struck Mars in 2024, supercharging its upper atmosphere and briefly disrupting spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet.

When the surface of the Sun exploded with activity in May 2024, Earth was hit by the biggest solar storm in more than two ...

Tests conducted with tardigrades suggest that there is something in Martian dirt that dramatically reduces biological ...

For decades, scientists have debated whether Mars once had a large ocean. Images from orbiters have shown valleys, channels ...

Mars used to have a warmer and wetter climate, which changed after billions of years because the Sun's solar wind removed ...

Scientists demonstrate that recycled human waste can unlock nutrients in Martian dust, offering a new path for farming on Mars.

The ESA's Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft watched as a superstorm that ravaged Earth also struck the ...