NASA’s Opportunity Mars rover, 14 years past its original 90-day design life, has dropped out of contact with Earth after powering down everything but its master clock in a bid to weather a huge dust ...

Mars is famous for its huge dust storms, but scientists now believe these storms may do more than block sunlight and reduce ...

Opportunity entered “low power fault” on June 4, deactivating all subsystems except the mission clock, as skies over its position at Perseverance Valley quickly darkened and power production from its ...

A new study by a doctoral researcher at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), part of The University of Alabama System, suggests global dust storms on Mars may organize the Martian atmosphere ...

(CNN) — A massive dust storm has hit Mars, and NASA's Opportunity rover is right in the middle of it. Opportunity relies on energy from sunlight to operate, and with the light blocked, day has turned ...

Mars is the fourth planet from the sun and has a distinct rusty red appearance and two unusual moons. The Red Planet is a ...

China’s Mars mission revealed strange discoveries on the red planet that continue raising disturbing questions among ...