It’s a long way from Tempe to Jupiter, but a thermal camera built at Arizona State University is on its way. First though, it made a crucial detour at Mars, millions of miles from the quiet lab where ...

As one of the five planets visible to the naked eye, Mars has fascinated humanity since before the advent of writing. The earliest observations merely tracked its path through the night sky, but with ...

Mars at sunset reveals dozens of razor-thin atmospheric layers in stunning detail, helping scientists map dust and ice ...

The discovery could lead to the ability to forecast when dust storms will occur. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The weather ...

Electrical sparks inside Martian dust devils have been detected for the first time, reshaping how scientists understand the planet’s atmosphere and climate. On Mars, strong winds routinely generate ...

The climate of early Mars is a subject of debate. While it has been thought that Mars had a warm and wet climate like Earth, other researchers have suggested early Mars might have been largely ...

The Martian polar vortex exhibits significantly lower temperatures (approximately 40°C colder) within its core compared to the surrounding atmosphere, a phenomenon observed through the use of the ...

Researchers from IIT Bombay have traced how the climate on the Red Planet went from hot and wet four billion years ago to ...

Until recently, Mars was studied only through telescopes and some data that was recorded from early spacecraft. It was thought that Mars' polar regions were the only significant reservoirs of ice, ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The discovery by the Mars rovers of carbonate in sedimentary rock on the Red Planet has enabled ...