Mars didn’t always look like the barren world we see today. Over billions of years, the Sun’s solar wind stripped away much ...
When the surface of the Sun exploded with activity in May 2024, Earth was hit by the biggest solar storm in more than two ...
The ESA's Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft watched as a superstorm that ravaged Earth also struck the ...
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 ...
Mars used to have a warmer and wetter climate, which changed after billions of years because the Sun's solar wind removed ...
What happens to Mars’ atmosphere when it gets hit with space weather? This is what a recent study published in Nature Communications hopes to address | Space ...
Mercury, Venus, and Mars sit within the same general neighborhood as Earth, yet each has followed a radically different path.
Lightning long ago escaped the bounds of Earth’s atmosphere—scientists have already discovered lightning blazing through the ...
Mars is a cold, dry, desert-like planet. But billions of years ago, scientific evidence suggests that it had a thick atmosphere, which kept it warm enough to support flowing water on its surface. So, ...