Besides Earth, Mars is the planet that we know the most about, but that doesn't mean there isn't more to discover; Mars can ...

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 ...

Scrolling through routine MAVEN data one day in December 2023, researcher Christopher Fowler noticed something he couldn’t explain: strange “wiggles” in the spacecraft’s magnetic field readings as it ...

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 ...