The latest selfie by NASA's Perseverance rover at Mars has captured an unexpected guest: a Martian dust devil.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The latest selfie by NASA's Perseverance rover at Mars has captured an unexpected guest: a Martian ...

As the southern hemisphere warms up, so does the layer of Mars' thin atmosphere in contact with it. This creates conditions ...

Today’s weather report on Mars: Windy with a chance of catastrophic dust storms blotting out the sky. In a new study, planetary scientists at CU Boulder have begun to unravel the factors that kick off ...

In short, it's yet another sign that traveling to Mars will be an extremely dangerous undertaking — a harsh reality that Musk has acknowledged himself. "While the dust on Mars isn’t going to ...

For the first time, scientists have captured the visible green lights of an aurora from the surface of Mars. The spectacle ...

Together, orbiters and landers have provided scientists with data showing that Mars’ red color comes from rusted iron minerals within the dust that coats the planet. At some point, iron within ...

underscoring the view of Mars as a desert planet currently inhospitable to life – at least on its surface. The data indicated that formation of these streaks is driven by the accumulation of ...

dry process related to wind and dust activity. “A big focus of Mars research is understanding modern-day processes on Mars — including the possibility of liquid water on the surface,” said ...

The research team also factored in the presumed composition of Mars’ red, iron-rich dust. Their conclusion was that there could be a sweet spot in layers of Martian ice where the dust could ...