Mars wasn't always the cold desert we see today. There's increasing evidence that water once flowed on the red planet's ...

Mars' atmosphere is one of the planet's most scientifically controversial characteristics. We know that the Red Planet's ...

Billions of years ago, Mars had a thick atmosphere and water, but in both cases, just a tiny amount remains today. Both ended ...

According to the researchers, ancient water trickling through Mars' rocks could have triggered a series of chemical reactions ...

New research suggests Mars' missing atmosphere -- which dramatically diminished 3.5 billion years ago -- could be locked in the planet's clay-covered crust. Water on Mars could have set off a chain ...

Prof Jagoutz said: “Based on our findings on Earth, we show that similar processes likely operated on Mars, and that copious amounts of atmospheric CO2 could have transformed to methane and been ...

The Earth: a ringed planet, much like Saturn, surrounded by a hula hoop of asteroids. The summit of Mount Everest: a tropical ...

The current imbalance in our atmosphere is putting more heat into our climate, and more heat translates to more energy. That’s more energy in the waves to erode our beaches, more energy to intensify ...

Multiple bullets containing a tiny spectrometer could be shot into the lunar soil by an astronaut or rover, allowing analysis ...

In deep Earth, rocks take up and release water all the time, and the effects can be wide reaching. Dehydration can cause ...

New research suggests that the atmosphere of Mars could have literally "gone to ground" as carbon dioxide was greedily ...

Now researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US believe the answer may be “hiding in plain ...