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' ...

As Mars’ atmosphere continues to change, NASA activated a new instrument on Feb.25 to study how the Sun influences the planet and what drives space weather near Earth. NASA launched ESCAPADE, which ...

Mars’s atmosphere may have once been hundreds of times thicker than it is today, acting as a blanket that protected it from frequent asteroids that ravaged other planets. While the sun and most ...

NASA’s ESCAPADE mission studies how solar wind removed Mars’ atmosphere, using twin spacecraft to measure atmospheric escape, magnetosphere changes, and space weather impacts.

The radio 'howl' of a lightning-like discharge has been detected at Mars for the first time. While orbiting the red planet, ...

The thin air of Mars has long been treated as a problem to be solved, a hostile mix of carbon dioxide and dust that stands between human explorers and long-term settlement. A growing body of research ...

(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 ...

NASA's Escapade mission, run by UC Berkeley, will get to the bottom of how solar radiation strips away the tattered Martian atmosphere. Credit: James Rattray / Rocket Lab USA illustration The U.S.

Mars scientists in Europe and the United States have detected tantalizing signs of methane gas in the Martian atmosphere, and cannot yet explain why it's there. Methane is commonly exuded by living ...

NASA has lost contact with a spacecraft that has orbited Mars for more than a decade. Maven, an acronym for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, abruptly stopped communicating with ground stations ...