NASA Prepared for Mars Sample Return Campaign
NASA released an independent review report Tuesday indicating the agency is now ready to undertake its Mars Sample Return (MSR) campaign to bring pristine samples…
NASA released an independent review report Tuesday indicating the agency is now ready to undertake its Mars Sample Return (MSR) campaign to bring pristine samples…
Mark your calendars: The agency’s latest rover has only about 8,640,000 seconds to go before it touches down on the Red Planet, becoming history’s next…
An ambitious campaign by NASA and ESA to collect samples from the Red Planet and return them to Earth has been praised by an Independent…
Mars is an obvious source of inspiration for science fiction stories. It is familiar and well-studied, yet different and far enough away to compel otherworldly…
First came Aelita: Queen of Mars, a silent film from 1924 about a Russian engineer who moves to the Red Planet and falls in love…
A meteorite that originated on Mars billions of years ago reveals details of ancient impact events on the red planet. Certain minerals from the Martian…
Earth’s most arid desert may hold a key to finding life on Mars. Diverse microbes discovered in the clay-rich, shallow soil layers in Chile’s dry…
An international team of planetary scientists led by astronomers at AOP have found an asteroid trailing behind Mars with a composition very similar to the…
In a little more than a decade, samples of rover-scooped Martian soil will rocket to Earth. While scientists are eager to study the red planet’s…
Mars is covered in intriguing scars – some of the most prominent being impact craters. A particularly unusual example is shown in this new image…
Geologists Dig Into Question of Martian Soil Fertility Humankind’s next giant step may be onto Mars. But before those missions can begin, scientists need to…
Sometimes half measures can be a good thing — especially on a journey this long. The agency’s latest rover only has about 146 million miles…
This illustration shows Jezero Crater — the landing site of the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover — as it may have looked billions of years ago…
This video clip shows a 3D printing technique where a printer head scans over each layer of a part, blowing metal powder which is melted…
Now that the heat probe is just below the Martian surface, InSight’s arm will scoop some additional soil on top to help it keep digging…
Recent science missions and results are bringing the search for life closer to home, and scientists at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian…
Made of a pair of two-wheeled vehicles, NASA’s DuAxel is designed to descend crater sides and near-vertical cliffs on the Moon, Mars, and beyond. A…
The discovery of Martian dune fields largely preserved in the rock record for up to a billion years offers new insights on past climatic conditions…