NASA’s HiRISE Captures a Bear’s Face on Mars – What Is It Really?
This feature on the surface of Mars looks a bit like a bear’s face. What is it really? There’s a hill with a V-shaped collapse…
This feature on the surface of Mars looks a bit like a bear’s face. What is it really? There’s a hill with a V-shaped collapse…
NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently announced a collaboration to demonstrate a nuclear thermal rocket engine in space, an enabling capability…
Ten sample tubes, capturing an amazing variety of Martian geology, have been deposited on Mars’ surface so they could be studied on Earth in the…
Other than Earth, no planet in the solar system has been so thoroughly or long examined as Mars. For more than two decades now NASA’s…
In the image above, NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is collecting two samples of regolith – broken rock and dust – with a regolith sampling bit…
Scientists have made history by recording the first audio of an extraterrestrial whirlwind on Mars, thanks to the microphone on NASA’s Perseverance rover. The study,…
A new study has found that Mars was covered by 300-meter-deep oceans. Mars is known for its reddish hue, but it is believed that the…
By studying seismic and orbital data from two major meteorite impacts in late 2021, the international teams of NASA’s InSight and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter missions…
The quake lasted four hours and identified layering in the crust that could indicate a meteoroid impact. The 4.7 magnitude temblor happened in May 2022…
Cube-shaped snow, icy landscapes, and frost are all part of the Red Planet’s coldest season. When winter comes to Mars, the surface is transformed into…
After more than four years on the Red Planet, NASA mission managers have concluded that the solar-powered InSight lander has run out of energy. NASA’s…
The sample tube, which is filled with rock, will be one of 10 forming a depot of tubes that the Mars Sample Return campaign could…
The ten sample tubes being dropped on Mars’ surface contain an astounding variety of the planet’s geology, which will one day be analyzed on Earth….
We have known for a while that the end was near for NASA’s Mars InSight lander, as the spacecraft’s power supply continued to dwindle from…
New research publishes first data on the Red Planet’s magnitude 4.7 quake that occurred earlier this year. Late on the Earth night of May 4,…
Mars 2020 Perseverance mission’s first two samples of regolith – broken rock and dust – could help scientists better understand the Red Planet and engineers…
These craters provide fascinating clues regarding the formation and evolution of the planet’s interior and atmosphere. Four new craters created by impacts on the surface…
Advanced 2D-3D insights into Earth’s oldest stromatolites. The oldest morphological traces of life on Earth are sometimes very controversial, both because non-biological processes may generate…