NASA’s twin ESCAPADE spacecraft will uncover how the Sun stripped Mars of its atmosphere. Mars is a very different world ...

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 ...

The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN mission, better known as MAVEN, has slipped into an unnerving silence just as it finished a rare close look at an interstellar visitor sweeping through the ...

The planet received, in just 64 hours, the same amount of radiation it typically absorbs over 200 days, overwhelming its upper atmosphere.

NASA is still trying to recontact the MAVEN Mars orbiter after it stopped responding earlier this month, with fragmentary tracking data hinting the craft may be tumbling and off its predicted ...

Two European Space Agency (ESA) probes orbiting Mars have observed the impact of a powerful solar "superstorm” on the Martian atmosphere and on space equipment, according to a study published in the ...

China launched a rover to Mars on Thursday, a journey coinciding with a similar US mission as the powers take their rivalry into deep space. The two countries are taking advantage of a period when ...

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

A space probe flying past Mars captured images of the red planet's small, mysterious moon. While on a flyby of Mars, Hera was able to use three of its imaging instruments to capture images of Deimos, ...