NASA's MAVEN spacecraft, which has orbited Mars since 2014, went quiet abruptly in early December. Efforts to reestablish a ...

Mars isn’t just dusty—it crackles with electricity. Scientists discovered that dust devils can generate tiny electric sparks, ...

NASA’s veteran Mars orbiter MAVEN has fallen ominously silent, cutting off a decade-long stream of atmospheric data that reshaped how scientists think about the red planet’s past. After weeks without ...

Artist's rendering of a solar storm hitting Mars and stripping ions from the planet's upper atmosphere. Mars' atmosphere, once as thick as if not thicker than Earth's today, is leaking into space. "We ...

Electrical sparks inside Martian dust devils have been detected for the first time, reshaping how scientists understand the ...

NASA engineers are working to restore communication with the MAVEN Mars orbiter after the spacecraft went silent in December ...

Mars is often described as silent, barren, and still. But beneath its dusty surface and cold skies, something unusual has ...

A NASA rover that launched from Florida detected electrical sparks igniting within small dusty tornadoes whirling on Mars' surface.

NASA loses contact with MAVEN, its Mars orbiter studying the planet's atmosphere, after a decade of successful operations.

It's not entirely clear how neighboring planet Mars went from a presumably life-supporting planet to a place as dead as all others in the solar system. We do know, however, that whatever water and ...

Mars is blanketed by a thin, mostly carbon dioxide atmosphere — one that is far too thin to keep water from freezing or quickly evaporating. However, geological evidence has led scientists to conclude ...

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, ...