Nilton O. Rennó receives funding from NASA, JPL, DARPA, and IARPA. Mars is a very dry planet with very little water in its atmosphere and hardly any clouds, so you might not expect it to have storms.

Mars is about half Earth’s size and roughly a tenth its mass — not really the sort of planet you’d expect to leave fingerprints on Earth’s climate history. Yet a new set of simulations by an ...

NASA lost contact with its MAVEN Mars orbiter in December 2025 after more than a decade of operation. A solar conjunction, where Mars and Earth are on opposite sides of the sun, has temporarily ...

NASA lost contact with its MAVEN Mars orbiter in early December and has been unable to reconnect with the vehicle. NASA plans to resume efforts to hail the spacecraft now that the solar conjunction ...

NASA's plans for Mars sample return are effectively cancelled as part of a bill approved by the U.S. Congress, ending efforts to collect Perseverance rover samples that could contain evidence of alien ...

"Without Mars, Earth's orbit would be missing major climate cycles. What would humans and other animals even look like if Mars weren't there?" When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

An artistic illustration of the MAVEN orbiter and Mars NASA / GSFC After 12 years in space, the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) orbiter has fallen silent, with NASA scientists back on ...

A broad view of Mars’s atmosphere. Credit: Andrea Luck / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 2.0 An international team of scientists has discovered geological formations on Mars that suggest the planet once ...

The Romantic Tour launches April 10 at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas. Bruno Mars' highly anticipated tour kicks off this year and the singer is already breaking records. Tickets for the "Versace on ...

Artificial intelligence is no longer a novelty – it’s part of everyday life. Large language models (LLMs) answer questions, craft social media posts, and streamline repetitive tasks for consumers ...

The findings potentially solve the paradox of how liquid water seems to have persisted on Mars even when the climate grew too cold. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...