New research suggests that about 3.6 billion years ago, Mars featured vast water flows and a lake rivaling the size of the ...

Mars is one of Earth's nearest space neighbours, and the idea of finding extraterrestrial life there, only a short rocket journey away, has long attracted human curiosity. Such life has not been ...

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One hundred kilograms of material designed to simulate Mars regolith, the dense, soil-like deposits present on the planet’s surface, arrived from Austin, Texas, at the Wageningen University ...

China’s Zhurong rover has found compelling evidence of a shoreline from a short-lived ancient ocean on Mars.  This new ...

Oct. 7, 2024 — NASA's Curiosity rover, currently exploring Gale crater on Mars, is providing new details about how the ancient Martian climate went from potentially suitable for life -- with ...

The Caltech team calculated how far down this habitable zone would be, based on the dust content and structure of the ice. If dust makes up more than about 1% of the ice, it would be too shaded ...

Yet, while 71% of Earth's surface is covered in liquid-water oceans, Mars appears to be a mostly dry landscape. Observations from Mars missions such as the Curiosity and Perseverance rovers have ...

Jupiter, which currently gleams from within the sparkling winter constellation Taurus, reaches opposition with the sun just a ...

This week, Elon Musk made the staggering claim that a city of one million people will be thriving on Mars within 30 years. Now, a leading scientist has warned that Musk's plan could prove disastrous.

Like Earth, Mars was formed about 4.5 billion years ago, but its early surface was very different than today's. Mars' surface then had high rates of meteorite and asteroid impacts from the period ...

We explore how long it takes to get to Mars and the factors that affect a journey to the Red Planet. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...