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Thirteen years into its mission, NASA's Curiosity rover is still uncovering Martian mysteries while learning to do more with ...
In the vast desert landscapes of Mars, peculiar geological formations continue to intrigue scientists. A prime example of ...
Coustenis noted that U.S. President Trump's budget request to Congress does not support NASA's Mars Sample Return (MSR) ...
Mars is usually a safe 225 million kilometers away from Earth, but what if the red planet went off course and headed straight ...
Martian glaciers are mostly pure ice across the Red Planet, suggesting they might potentially be useful resources for any ...
Thirteen years ago, NASA’s Curiosity rover made its daring descent to the surface of Mars, beginning a groundbreaking mission that would reshape our understanding of the Red Planet.
"Dust devils themselves are difficult to capture in images because they are so short-lived," Ingrid Daubar, a planetary ...
We’ve always known Mars as the Red Planet — but it turns out, we may have had the reason why wrong. If so, it could revise much of what we know about the history of our smaller neighbor planet.
The helicopters will scout the Martian surface to help prepare for a human landing on the Red Planet.
New research suggests ancient Red Planet precipitation was a lot like Earth It's hard to figure out if Mars was “warm and wet” in its ancient past, but climate models give us clues ...
But new analysis of spacecraft observations along with laboratory techniques suggests Mars’ red color is better matched by iron oxides containing water, known as ferrihydrite. Ferrihydrite ...
The company has laid out a vision for robotic and crewed Mars missions aboard its Starship and Super Heavy rockets. Musk has said SpaceX’s craft could ferry a million colonists to the Red Planet ...