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 ...

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

This cold is out of this world. New Hampshire’s Mount Washington felt more like Mars than planet Earth on Friday as wind chills dipped below an unfathomable minus 110 degrees, a new record for ...

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.

Mars is in fact a very cold planet by human standards: NASA says the mean temperature on the Red Planet is around -85 degrees F. But it’s also a very dry planet, ...

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 ...

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

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 ...