Second time's the charm. Sample tube 266 contains the rover's first rock, which NASA hopes to bring back to Earth on…
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NASA is recruiting participants to live and work in an isolated, 1,700-square-foot habitat known as Mars Dune Alpha.
Recent detections of something that looked like liquid water could be chalked up to an esoteric mineral, according…
Newly discovered rocks, with their histories wiped clean, are still considered good places to look for signs of…
The Martian craft flew far from the Perseverance rover this time, crossing treacherous dunes.
Temperatures around the Martian south pole mean the lakes are likely to be frozen.
Water that used to exist on Mars slowly leaked out into space, or at least that’s the going theory. A new paper…
When the NASA Mars rover Perseverance was dramatically airlifted through the Red Planet’s atmosphere and touched…
Ice sheets, and not rushing rivers, sculpted many Martian valleys, according to scientists. The new research…
Surprising quantities of bacteria have been found living in clay-rich rocks under the Pacific seafloor. The…
Unlike some people on Watchmen, I’m not even sure a hammer to the head might help at this point.
Mars’ surface, as far as we can tell, is not habitable to humans—it’s far too cold. But eventually, humanity would…
NASA’s Curiosity rover discovered “startlingly high amounts of methane in the Martian air” on Wednesday in what…
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Scientists report finding evidence for an ancient planet-wide groundwater system on Mars, according to a new study.…
By using the barren Atacama Desert in Chile as a stand-in for Mars, researchers have shown that it’s possible to use…
Interplanetary travel is pitched to us as a good thing. Explorers will visit other planets, which settlers will then…
NASA has announced the landing location of its upcoming Mars 2020 rover: Jezero Crater.
After decades of debate, scientists have spotted hints of liquid water trapped beneath the planet’s south polar ice…
As far as humans are concerned, Mars has two stories. One is in the present: We’re trying to send our ships and our…
No, NASA hasn’t discovered life on Mars yet—but a new result makes it seem like maybe, at some point in the planet’s…