Latest News about MAVEN, the NASA Mars Mission

The red planet could provide insight into how the atmospheres are stripped off of distant, comet-like exoplanets.

A bombardment of asteroids on a once-icy ancient Mars may have created vast oceans of liquid water, which persisted for 200 million years.

This eerie portrait of Mars' moon Phobos in ultraviolet light was snapped by the NASA orbiter MAVEN as their orbits crossed paths.

Bruce Jakosky, principle investigator for MAVEN, spoke with Space.com about new findings that the sun stripped away much of Mars' atmosphere.

Most of the carbon dioxide from Mars' formerly thick atmosphere was lost to space billions of years ago, meaning the greenhouse gas cannot be accessed to help warm the planet up again.

The first astronauts to set foot on Mars may be in for a spectacular sight — the entire night sky filled with glowing auroras.