When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An illustration shows an misty atmosphere around the Red Planet Mars. Could this envelop of gas ...

When the surface of the Sun exploded with activity in May 2024, Earth was hit by the biggest solar storm in more than two ...

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, ...

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 ...

A storm from the Sun can make a planet’s sky glow or a spacecraft’s computer stumble. At Mars in May 2024, it did both, just ...

Mars' missing atmosphere may be locked up in the planet's clay-rich surface, a new study by MIT geologists has suggested. According to the researchers, ancient water trickling through Mars' rocks ...

The study presents the first in-situ evidence of electrical activity in the Martian atmosphere, identifying 55 distinct triboelectric discharge events. These electrical discharges, unlike terrestrial ...

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 fact that the cold, dry Mars of today had flowing rivers and lakes several billion years ago has puzzled scientists for decades. Now, researchers think they have a good explanation for a warmer, ...

ESA orbiters watched a May 2024 solar superstorm flood Mars’ upper air with electrons and trigger spacecraft glitches. (CREDIT: SOHO (ESA & NASA), NASA/SDO/AIA, JHelioviewer/D. Müller) A storm from ...