Mars is about half Earth’s size and roughly a tenth its mass — not really the sort of planet you’d expect to leave fingerprints on Earth’s climate history. Yet a new set of simulations by an ...

The idea that Mars could affect Earth’s climate sounds dramatic, since climate change is usually linked to cars, factories, forests, and oceans, not distant planets. Yet Earth is part of a solar ...

Earth's climate has swung between ice ages and warmer periods for millions of years, driven by subtle changes in our planet's orbit and axial tilt. These variations, known as Milankovitch cycles, ...

Stephen Kane, a professor of planetary astrophysics at UC Riverside, was skeptical when he read recent studies that showed the gravitational pull from Mars being connected to Earth’s long-term climate ...

Massive dust storms sweeping across Mars modify 1 where frozen carbon dioxide forms on the planet's surface and atmosphere. A finding, based on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter data, exposes how ...

Billions of years ago, Mars may not have been the frozen desert we see today. New simulations suggest that volcanic eruptions pumped out reactive sulfur gases, creating greenhouse effects strong ...

Since humans first started observing Mars, the existence of nocturnal ice clouds on the Red Planet has been known, primarily through daytime observations and sophisticated climate models. Twilight ...