In December 2023, scientists looking at Mars data stumbled across something completely unexpected—observations of an atmospheric effect never before seen in the Red Planet's atmosphere. Using ...

Almost six months after NASA lost contact with the spacecraft, the agency has declared the MAVEN satellite unrecoverable and its mission concluded.

NASA's MAVEN spacecraft has recorded something Mars has never shown before, which is the Zwan-Wolf effect. It's a process long known in Earth's magnetosphere but now seen for the first time in a ...

We know Mars to be many things: dusty, cold, and missing a global magnetic field. In a recent discovery that baffled scientists, a space weather phenomenon previously associated with powerful magnetic ...