However, Earth's density is higher than that of Mars – 5.514 g/cm 3 compared to 3.93 g/cm 3 (or 0.71 Earths) – which indicates that Mars' core region contains more lighter elements than Earth's.

A meteorite that is the largest known piece of Mars on Earth is expected to fetch up to $4 million when it goes up for ...

Sheel and his team found that when the atmosphere of Mars is laden with dust, the atmosphere becomes less conductive, ...

Wave-like landforms on Mars provide clues about the planet’s icy history, its potential to support life, and the behavior of ...

Mars is thought to currently have all the necessary ingredients for life except for perhaps the most important one: liquid water ...

One summer night in 1877, American astronomer Asaph Hall was looking through his telescope in Washington, D.C. Mars was at ...

If we were to infuse Mars, today, with an Earth-like atmosphere, the solar wind would whittle it back down to its present density in a mere few tens of millions of years. Lundin et al. (2004 ...

NASA is preparing for severe cuts under the White House’s proposed budget for 2026. The budget, released in May, highlights ...

Despite having radically different atmospheres, Mars and Earth seem to have similar cloud patterns, hinting that the features may form in much the same way. The observations, obtained by the ...

(1100 mi) off the coast of northwest Africa near the Earth’s equator. Both images are shown at the same scale; 4 km (2.5 mi) per pixel. Dust storms play an important role in governing the ...