NASA's Perseverance rover captured Phobos eclipsing the Sun, offering insights into Mars' moons and evolution.

If we’re going to live on Mars we’ll need a way to grow food in its arid dirt. Researchers think they know a way. Once upon a time, water flowed across the surface of Mars. Waves lapped ...

Launched in 2020, Perseverance has been exploring Mars' surface and recently arrived at a region called "Serpentine Rapids," where it discovered red rocks that captured scientists' attention. To ...

Scientists Lay out Revolutionary Method to Warm Mars Aug. 7, 2024 — Ever since we learned that the surface of planet Mars is cold and dead, people have wondered if there is a way to make it ...

The conditions needed for photosynthesis to occur on Mars could exist beneath the surface of dusty ice at the Red Planet’s mid-latitudes, new research suggests. Photosynthesis is the process by ...

The NASA research was led by Aditya Khuller, a postdoctoral researcher at JPL (Representational) Is there life on Mars? Scientists ... water on the red planet's surface. Based on computer ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The conditions needed for photosynthesis to occur on Mars could exist beneath the surface of ...

A father and daughter team based in the U.S. have decoded a mock "alien signal" beamed from ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter a year ago — but the meaning of the extraterrestrial message remains a ...

"Our samples are not consistent with an ancient environment with life (biosphere) on the surface of Mars," said NASA Goddard's David Burtt, the lead author of the paper. "[A]lthough this does not ...

The search for life on Mars is one step closer after scientists pinpointed where it is most likely to exist. New research has concluded radiation from the sun would kill it off on the surface ...

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so liquid water can pool on the surface. In the context of Mars, a habitable zone for photosynthesizing microbes could exist beneath a certain amount of ice. Too shallow and the strong ultraviolet ...