China's Zhurong rover, part of the 2021 Tianwen-1 mission, has found the first clear signs of ancient beach deposits under ...

NASA’s new ESCAPADE mission is set to uncover the mysteries of Mars’ atmospheric loss, offering crucial insights into how the planet evolved from a potentially habitable world to the dry, barren ...

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

NASA monitors MAVEN spacecraft after December 6 signal loss, coordinating recovery with Deep Space Network. Mars solar conjunction from December 29 to January 16 will pause communications.

As of December 4, 2023, MAVEN has not communicated with mission control, prompting NASA to issue an update on its status. The analysis of tracking data suggests that the spacecraft is rotating ...

What can sand dunes on Earth and Mars teach us about the latter’s wind behavior and atmosphere? This is what a recently awarded NASA grant hopes to address as a PhD student at Texas A&M University ...

Mars and Venus, two planets with distinctly unique characteristics, also differ significantly in their placement within the ...

Sometimes there are storms where the wind gets really strong, it might rain, or there might be thunder and lightning. Did you ...

It used to be thought that there were more volatiles than expected in lunar soil because they escaped Earth before it had a ...