A storm from the Sun can make a planet’s sky glow or a spacecraft’s computer stumble. At Mars in May 2024, it did both, just without the auroras people photographed on Earth.

The ESA's Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft watched as a superstorm that ravaged Earth also struck the Red Planet.

Newly released Mars images offer a detailed look at one of the Red Planet's oldest, most heavily cratered regions, a ...

Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.

"Life might actually survive being ejected from one planet and moving to another." ...

Tests conducted with tardigrades suggest that there is something in Martian dirt that dramatically reduces biological ...

A potential new mineral on Mars forms when iron sulfates are heated above 100°C. Data from Valles Marineris regions suggest ...

The way this document is written suggests that when NASA scores bidders for the Mars Telecommunications Network, the addition ...

A super-tough microbe may be able to survive being blasted from Mars into space—opening the door to interplanetary life transfer.

What happens when a solar superstorm hits Mars? Thanks to the European Space Agency's Mars orbiters, we now know: glitching ...

NASA's Curiosity rover just found bizarre nodules on giant Martian "spiderwebs." Scientists are puzzled.