As astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams acclimatize to Earth, the effects of being stranded in space for nine months, ...

Understanding how air moves across a planet is key to predicting its weather and climate. On Earth, these patterns shape ...

In a nutshell • Tiny atmospheric ripples called gravity waves, not large planetary waves, are the main drivers of Mars’s ...

Mars' atmosphere moves differently from Earth's due to gravity waves. These waves affect air circulation at high altitudes.

Such major and arbitrary cuts to NASA’s budget would do very little to save money, but they will undercut and decimate one of ...

A new study by researchers including those at the University of Tokyo revealed that atmospheric gravity waves play a crucial ...

Because the realms that Mars rules are so integral to our daily routines and essential sense of power, we feel the effects of the planet’s retrograde more acutely. Now that the planet is at long ...

Qi Zhang, a doctoral student at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics and Umeå University, explores in her doctoral thesis ...

A mission to survey the results of a deliberate crash between an asteroid and a NASA spacecraft has taken stunning images of ...

Mars has shone red in the night sky for as long as humans have gazed up at the cosmos, fascinating people from the ancient Romans to the present day. "The fundamental question of why Mars is red ...

But Mars retrograde, which happens every 18 to 24 months, has a special sort of wrecking ball effect. And we’re not at all sad to see that end. If Mars retrograde were a character in a movie ...