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Cool space image shows route of Mars rover as it treks across the Red Planet - The Curiosity rover is heading to a region ...
NASA's Perseverance rover has revealed new clues about Mars' volcanic past. While most people searching for signs of alien ...
This kind of radiation is extremely damaging, and is a serious threat to human plans for living on the red planet. But researchers writing in the journal IMA Fungus say they reckon lichens could ...
In part of Jezero Crater known as the Shenandoah formation, two generations of calcium sulfate minerals formed beneath the ...
Scientists have known for a while that Mars currently lacks a magnetic field, and many blame that for its paltry atmosphere – ...
Now, experts have unearthed evidence that the Red Planet was once habitable. Scientists have found carbon residue in Martian rocks, indicating that an ancient carbon cycle existed. And it means ...
A NASA rover taking rock samples on Mars has uncovered a plentiful mineral that was invisible to orbiters studying the Red Planet from space. Scientists say the discovery of siderite, a type of ...
First ever supercomputer simulations of Mars with a fully molten core could explain the Red Planet's unusual magnetic field. Billions of years ago, Mars had an active magnetic field. Mysteriously, its ...
Comparing their findings to actual data from Mars taken by Nasa spacecrafts, the researchers found that simulations with rainfall lined up more closely with the real Red Planet. They cautioned ...
NASA has revealed a concept for the next generation of flight on the Red Planet, the "Mars Chopper." Credit: Space.com | ...