Mars, once a much wetter and more dynamic planet, is now a dry and inhospitable desert. The mystery of how the red planet lost its water has fascinated scientists for decades. A groundbreaking study ...

Scientists have found that ancient Martian lakes could have survived for decades despite freezing air temperatures. Using a ...

Small but mighty, the red planet — our celestial neighbor — has made Earth’s climate what it is today. Mars’ gravitational pull serves as a stabilizing force for our home’s orbit, tilt and position ...

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 ...

Advances in technology have reopened the debate over terraforming Mars, shifting it from an impossible dream to a long-term scientific and ethical question.

Planetary scientists have identified a previously unrecognized pathway for water loss on Mars -- observed, for the first time ...

How did Mars maintain surface liquid water billions of years ago? This is what a recent study published in AGU Advances hopes to address as a team of researchers from the United States and Canada ...

Scientists had assumed that Mars had a negligible effect on the climate of Earth. A focused study revealed some unexpected ...

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.

Stephen Kane, a professor of planetary astrophysics at UC Riverside, was skeptical when he read recent studies that showed the gravitational pull from Mars being connected to Earth’s long-term climate ...