For decades, researchers have suspected that lightning lights up the sky on Mars. Now, they may have captured at least the ...

The picture-perfect launch of twin Escapade orbiters bound for Mars presages a fantastical new age in exploring the planets, ...

Ask someone on Earth for the time and they can give you an exact answer, thanks to our planet's intricate timekeeping system, ...

Scientists have detected what they believe to be lightning on Mars by eavesdropping on the whirling wind recorded by NASA’s ...

Rocks that stood out as light-colored dots on the reddish-orange surface of Mars now are the latest evidence that areas of the small planet may have once supported wet oases with humid climates and ...

Mars' watery past is becoming clearer, with evidence of ancient rivers and long-lasting surface water. While a supposed south ...

NASA scientists were baffled after uncovering a rock on Mars that didn’t belong there — with a composition pointing to ...

It is a scientific consensus that water once flowed on Mars, and that it had a denser atmosphere, meaning that it was once ...

Mars’s Coloe Fossae reveals a landscape shaped by ancient ice ages, with deep valleys, cratered terrain, and frozen debris ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has recorded the first evidence of electrical activity on Mars that a scientist described as "mini ...

Kerala now joins earlier Indian names found on Mars. Ganga and craters named after Devendra Lal remain important examples.

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