The discovery of a vast, fresh impact scar on Mars began with what looked like a smudge in a routine weather snapshot. A ...

Mars has long been pictured as a cold, quiet desert, its famous dust storms more cinematic backdrop than active player in the ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has been roaming the Red Planet since 2012, taking thousands of pictures, drilling small holes in the planet's surface and searching for evidence of past habitable environments ...

And now for the weather on Mars: NASA's newest lander is offering daily reports on the red planet's frigid winter. Starting Tuesday, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is posting the highs and lows ...

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 ...

Communications with Mars explorers face unique challenges, including 4–24 minute signal delays and limited bandwidth that restricts data transmission. While NASA's Deep Space Network currently manages ...

The Curiosity rover is making incredible discoveries on Mars. In this episode of "Weather or Not with Lee Goldberg," Abigail Fraeman, the Curiosity rover's deputy project scientist, discusses new ...

What can dust devils on Mars teach scientists about the Red Planet’s weather and climate cycles? This is what a recent study published in Science Advances hopes to address as a team of scientists ...

Sometimes cloudy with rust-colored skies, Texas A&M associate professor Mark Lemmon says. And the dust -- oh, the dust. Lemmon has spent the last decade working with NASA's Mars Exploration Rover team ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — And now for the weather on Mars: NASA's newest lander is offering daily reports on the red planet's frigid winter. Starting Tuesday, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is posting ...

What steps can be taken to safeguard future human missions to Mars? This is what a recent study presented at the Royal Astronomical Society’s National Astronomy Meeting 2025 hopes to address as a ...

Four papers in the journal Science this week offer new details about the history of water on Mars, gleaned from the 2008 NASA Phoenix Mars Mission that was operated from The University of Arizona.