"You could actually use some of those obscene billions of dollars of money to improve life here on earth." Elon Musk ...

A northern summer dust storm on Mars boosted high-altitude water escape, suggesting short-lived events may play a bigger role in water loss.

As more than 120 million people tuned in to the Super Bowl for kickoff on Sunday evening, SpaceX founder Elon Musk turned ...

Mars today is a cold, dry desert, but its surface tells a very different story. Ancient river channels, lake basins, and ...

Scientists have found that ancient Martian lakes could have survived for decades despite freezing air temperatures. Using a newly adapted climate model, researchers showed that thin, seasonal ice ...

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

How does Mars lose its water, and what can this teach scientists about the planet’s ancient past when it had much more water?

The current image of Mars as an arid and hostile desert contrasts sharply with the history revealed by its surface. Channels, ...

CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION — NASA and Blue Origin are planning to launch the ESCAPADE mission, where a pair of satellites will study Mars' magnetosphere. ESCAPADE will eventually help future ...

For years, Mars seemed like a dry, airless world but new images from orbiters and rovers reveal a thin, dynamic atmosphere. Made mostly of carbon dioxide, it drives fierce dust storms, seasonal ...

Nilton O. Rennó receives funding from NASA, JPL, DARPA, and IARPA. Mars is a very dry planet with very little water in its atmosphere and hardly any clouds, so you might not expect it to have storms.

NASA lost contact with its MAVEN Mars orbiter in December 2025 after more than a decade of operation. A solar conjunction, where Mars and Earth are on opposite sides of the sun, has temporarily ...