Her research provides new insights for understanding how the atmosphere of Mars has evolved over time. Unlike Earth, Mars lacks a global magnetic field and interacts with the solar wind directly.

With a radius of 2,106 miles, Mars is the seventh largest planet in our solar system and about half ... Mars has a far thinner atmosphere than Earth, which dramatically lessens how much heat ...

The simulations revealed that in the young Mars, the magnetosphere may have acted as a shield stopping the solar wind from coming too close to the planet's atmosphere thus protecting it.

First proposed in the 1950s by University of Chicago physicist Eugene Parker, the solar wind is visible in the halo around the sun during an eclipse and sometimes when the particles hit the Earth’s ...

For the first time on a global scale, 20 years of observations on Mars have been condensed into a single study led by ...

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 ...

NASA scientist Dr. Noah Petro joined Eyewitness News live on Thursday morning to discuss what will happen in our upper atmosphere ... said the one in orbit uses solar power, so it will actually ...

A huge sun eruption combines with speedy solar wind from a "coronal hole" for ... When those particles interact with the upper atmosphere, they cause a glow (usually in green) visibel to skywatchers.