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 ...

The Keeble Observatory at Randolph-Macon College holds weekly public viewing during spring semester. Check their website ( or ...

World-renowned Greek astrophysicist Stamatios Krimigis says that a human settlement on Mars is a distant dream.

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 ...

We are protected from most of this radiation thanks to our planet’s atmosphere and magnetic field, known as the magnetosphere. But Mars has no magnetosphere, and its atmosphere is over 100 times ...

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 ...