As the sun grew hotter, so did Mars, prompting much of its atmospheric carbon dioxide to rain out and ultimately get locked ...

N ew research suggests that temperatures on ancient Mars may have fluctuated between hot and cold periods through a relatively short period during its lifetime of billions of years. But these hot ...

A trip to Mars takes much longer than a trip to space. Most missions to Mars typically take between 6 and 9 months. For example, NASA's Perseverance rover took about 7 months to reach Mars.

New study reveals the icy, cold climate of Mars' past, with implications for life A new study finds that Martian soil was frigid and icy, making it less likely to support life as we know it ...

Mars may be more like Earth than previously thought, despite having a thinner atmosphere and a dry, dusty surface.

Sheel and his team found that when the atmosphere of Mars is laden with dust, the atmosphere becomes less conductive, ...

Algae grown under Mars-like conditions could make bioplastic building materials for structures to harbor life in space.

Detection of ferrihydrite in Martian red dust records ancient cold and wet conditions on Mars. Nature Communications. Published online February 25, 2025. doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-56970-z.

The fact that the cold, dry Mars of today had flowing rivers and lakes several billion years ago has puzzled scientists for decades. Now, researchers think they have a good explanation for a ...

This requires the viscosity of Mars's upper mantle to be 10 to 100 times greater than Earth's, indicating that the interior of the Red Planet is extremely cold. "Although the mantle underneath Mars's ...

Mars may be a dry and arid planet today, but scientists know that Earth's neighbor was much wetter and much more like our planet in its ancient past.. These new findings from a team of researchers ...