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 ...

Ground-penetrating radar reveals a long-lost river system hidden under the surface of Mars. (NASA/JPL/UCLA/UiO/ETH Zurich) Far away, alone in a crater on a planet inhabited only by robots, NASA's ...

In a single drive, the rover rolled over 411 meters of Mars ' rocky surface. That may not sound like much, but compared to ...

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

Craters, craters, and yet more craters: this snapshot from ESA's Mars Express is packed full of them, each as fascinating as ...

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

NASA photos appear to show a pyramid-like structure the same size as Giza on Mars, prompting speculation about whether an ancient civilisation once existed on the Red Planet ...

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

When it comes to the space sciences, nothing is quite as exciting as the search for alien life, and NASA thinks it has a good ...

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has spied a pitted rock face known as "Timboy Chaco" as it explores a region of the Red Planet ...

Learn how bacteria survived a simulated asteroid impact and could travel between planets on asteroid debris.