A research team led by Prof. Tan Peng from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of ...

While the early climate of Mars remains an open question, a new study suggests that its atmosphere may have been hospitable to life due to volcanic activity that emitted sulfur gases that contributed ...

If life exists on alien worlds, scientists expect that the worlds in question would have certain basic properties. There would be carbon, an element essential to the creation of organic molecules. The ...

A climate change theory for Earth can be applied to Mars and possibly to other Earth-like planets, report a Brown geoscientist and two colleagues in the Sept. 26 issue of Nature. Orbital forcing of ...

A rare glimpse into the wintry conditions of Mars’s north polar vortex has shown that temperatures inside the vortex are far ...

A team of researchers from the CSIC-INTA Astrobiology Centre in Madrid has confirmed that the type of mineralogical composition on the surface of Mars influences the measuring of its temperature. The ...

China's presumed-dead Zhurong rover spotted telltale patterns of ancient climate change in the Martian dunes. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

Slices from the edge of Mars reveal a layered atmosphere of delicate complexity. A European spacecraft has captured a ...

A European spacecraft has captured the most detailed images yet of Mars’s upper atmosphere, revealing a delicate, layered ...