The ESA's Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft watched as a superstorm that ravaged Earth also struck the Red Planet.
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.
When it comes to the space sciences, nothing is quite as exciting as the search for alien life, and NASA thinks it has a good idea of where to look.
What happens when a solar superstorm hits Mars? Thanks to the European Space Agency's Mars orbiters, we now know: glitching ...
A super-tough microbe may be able to survive being blasted from Mars into space—opening the door to interplanetary life transfer.
The way this document is written suggests that when NASA scores bidders for the Mars Telecommunications Network, the addition ...
Tests conducted with tardigrades suggest that there is something in Martian dirt that dramatically reduces biological ...
NASA has provided new details about its plans to procure a Mars communications orbiter funded under last year’s budget ...
For nearly a month, NASA has been scrambling to make contact with a spacecraft in orbit around Mars that abruptly fell silent. The space agency lost communication with the MAVEN probe (short for Mars ...