A northern summer dust storm on Mars boosted high-altitude water escape, suggesting short-lived events may play a bigger role ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Three and a half billion years ago, Mars underwent a dramatic transformation. Its thick blanket of air ...

All evidence points to Mars having had a carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere billions of years ago, but insufficient carbonates in Martian soil challenge this theory. Now, a new study using data from ...

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 ...

For years, scientists have puzzled over how Mars lost the thick atmosphere it once had. That atmosphere was essential for liquid water to exist on the planet’s surface, billions of years ago. Today, ...

Researchers say they have gathered evidence of Mars' atmosphere sputtering for the first time. Understanding how Mars' atmosphere has changed over time will undoubtedly help us discover more about the ...

The thermal impact of dust storms on Mars is significant, and is thought to play a similar role to that of water vapor in Earth’s atmosphere. A new study by researchers including those at the ...

Mars entry vehicle aerothermodynamics encapsulates the study of fluid dynamic and thermal phenomena encountered when a spacecraft penetrates the thin, predominantly CO₂ atmosphere of Mars. This field ...