A study finds atmospheric waves alter electron content, helping scientists map the hidden magnetic fields on Mars.

The sun continuously blasts charged, magnetic field-carrying particles, or plasma, in all directions. This solar wind ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist’s concept depicting NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft in orbit around Mars. (NASA/Goddard ...

The thin air of Mars has long been treated as a problem to be solved, a hostile mix of carbon dioxide and dust that stands between human explorers and long-term settlement. A growing body of research ...

Mars is a cold, dry, desert-like planet. But billions of years ago, scientific evidence suggests that it had a thick atmosphere, which kept it warm enough to support flowing water on its surface. So, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ESA orbiters watched a May 2024 solar superstorm flood Mars’ upper air with electrons and trigger spacecraft glitches. (CREDIT: ...

Ancient ripple layers on Mars capture a single sandstorm, helping scientists estimate how dense the planet’s atmosphere once ...

(NEW YORK) — Mars is a cold, dry, desert-like planet. But billions of years ago, scientific evidence suggests that it had a thick atmosphere, which kept it warm enough to support flowing water on its ...

What happens to Mars’ atmosphere when it gets hit with space weather? This is what a recent study published in Nature Communications hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated novel methods ...

Lightning long ago escaped the bounds of Earth’s atmosphere—scientists have already discovered lightning blazing through the skies of Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune. Now they think they’ve found it on ...

ESA orbiters watched a May 2024 solar superstorm flood Mars’ upper air with electrons and trigger spacecraft glitches. (CREDIT: SOHO (ESA & NASA), NASA/SDO/AIA, JHelioviewer/D. Müller) A storm from ...