A new study by researchers including those at the University of Tokyo revealed that atmospheric gravity waves play a crucial role in driving latitudinal air currents on Mars, particularly at high ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MAVEN data shows Mars can redirect plasma inside its ionosphere during solar storms, revealing a new space weather effect. (CREDIT ...

Mars wasn't always frozen and barren. Billions of years ago it had flowing rivers, standing lakes, and possibly oceans. It ...

(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 ...

For the first time on a global scale, 20 years of observations on Mars have been condensed into a single study led by Francisco Brasil and Pedro Machado, both researchers from the Faculty of Sciences ...

ST. LOUIS – From monstrous tsunamis to building-shattering earthquakes to flood-inducing downpours, mother nature is a force to be reckoned with. We’re all tired of this extreme weather here on Earth ...

Deep oceans of magma once sloshed about inside the crust of Mars, seismic measurements taken by NASA's InSight mission ...

Over more than a decade at Mars, the orbiter revealed how the solar wind strips away the planet’s atmosphere — and why the world lost its water.

Mars does not have Earth's kind of magnetic shield, so it has often been treated as the solar system's more exposed world. It is a planet left to take the sun's blows with far less protection. But ...