Mars' magnetic field may have survived 200 million years longer than scientists had thought — crucially, long enough for it to overlap with the presence of liquid water on the surface of the Red ...

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NASA's Perseverance rover landed on Mars in 2021 to search for signs of ancient microbial life and to help scientists ...

Unlike Earth, Mars lacks a global magnetic field and interacts with the solar wind directly. Over billions of years, this interaction has stripped much of the Martian atmosphere, transforming the ...

"Take Mars as an example. We don't understand yet why (Mars' magnetic field) ceased to exist in the past." Devika Rao has worked as a staff writer at The Week since 2022, covering science ...

Space is a harsh environment with dangerously high-energy radiation, especially from the sun. We are protected from most of this radiation thanks to our planet’s atmosphere and magnetic field, known ...

While Earth's atmosphere and magnetic field protect the planet from these solar events, Mars has no such protection. But the sun's solar particles could be a boon for studies of — and travel to ...

A recent study has revealed that the red color of Mars is due to ferrihydrite, an iron oxide mineral. This finding suggests that Mars once had liquid ...