Mars didn’t always look like the barren world we see today. Over billions of years, the Sun’s solar wind stripped away much of its atmosphere, helping transform it from a warmer, wetter planet into a ...

Wind power on Mars is feasible, a new study suggests. Researchers demonstrated a small, lightweight wind turbine under simulated Martian atmospheric conditions, at the Aarhus Wind Tunnel Simulator II ...

NASA’s twin ESCAPADE spacecraft will uncover how the Sun stripped Mars of its atmosphere. Mars is a very different world today than it once was. Scientists believe the planet used to have a thicker ...

Martian winds can have quite an impact. ESA's Mars Express has spotted them whipping up sand grains and acting as a cosmic sandblaster, carving out intriguing grooves near Mars's equator. Subscribe to ...

Studying winds on Mars is very difficult. On Earth, we can easily use weather balloons or satellite tools to measure wind directly. But on Mars, there are very few places where scientists can put ...

PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's new Mars lander has captured the first sounds of the Martian wind. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory released audio clips of the alien wind Friday. The low-frequency rumblings ...