NASA is preparing to send three helicopters to Mars to explore places that rovers struggle to reach. Set to launch in 2028 aboard the nuclear-powered SR-1 Freedom spacecraft, the SkyFall mission will ...

The mission will be the second launch of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket.

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 as a team of scientists investigated novel methods ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MAVEN data shows Mars can redirect plasma inside its ionosphere during solar storms, revealing a new space weather effect. (CREDIT ...

Our sun constantly releases a stream of high-speed charged particles, known as the solar wind. Unlike Earth, Mars does not have a strong global magnetic field to shield its atmosphere from this flow.

When the surface of the Sun exploded with activity in May 2024, Earth was hit by the biggest solar storm in more than two decades. The video shown below—made from images captured by NASA’s Solar ...

Our Sun constantly releases a stream of high-speed charged particles, known as the solar wind. Unlike Earth, Mars does not have a strong global magnetic field to shield its atmosphere from this flow.

Scientists have found an unexpected pattern in Mars' atmosphere called the Zwan-Wolf effect, which generally only occurs on planets like Earth that have strong magnetic fields. These magnetic fields ...