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A recent analysis of the Sapphire Canyon mudstone core, drilled by NASA’s Perseverance rover in July 2024, adds new and convincing evidence ...

The Perseverance rover has explored and sampled igneous and sedimentary rocks within Jezero Crater to characterize early Martian geological...

Scientists using NASA’s Curiosity rover have discovered siderite—an iron carbonate—in the sulfate-rich rocks of Gale Crater, solving a long-...

Imagine taking a leisurely Sunday drive, and you accidentally smash something on the road that turns out to be an unprecedented scientific r...

Dark shapes and bright spots on sand dunes in Mars’ North Pole region. (Harvard University's John A. Paulson School Of Engineering And ...

A very rare treat is about to grace Earth's night skies. On the evening of 28 February 2025, all seven of the other planets in the Solar...

Scientists have  long proposed   nuclear fission-fueled rockets  to get to Mars fast — but one is warning that making it happen will be an u...

One of the classic tropes of science fiction is terraforming Mars : warming up our cold neighbor so it could support human civilization. The...

In its ancient past, Mars likely contained many of the necessarily ingredients for microbial life to flourish on its surface. Now, a new dis...

The future of space travel depends on our ability to reach celestial pit stops faster and more efficiently. As such, NASA is working with a ...

We often marvel at the largest peaks that grace our planet—Everest, K2, Denali—but there is a mountain that dwarfs all these giants not just...

Are we alone in the universe? It's a question that's been posed again and again. Carl Sagan posed it in the 1970s as a NASA mission ...

A school science experiment is answering questions that are out of this world. While there had been concerns that any evidence of organic ma...

Researchers estimated that as few as 22 people would be needed to sustain a colony on Mars. But there are lots of caveats, and the new study...

The space race has been revived, but this time, the goal post has been shifted much further – to Mars. As recent technological advancements ...

Nuclear fusion propulsion technology has the potential to revolutionize space travel in terms of both speeds and fuel usage. The same kinds ...

Color-coded topographic view shows the relative heights of features in Cerberus Fossae: reds and whites are relatively higher than blues and...

An artist illustration of the InSight lander on Mars. InSight, short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat...

As for any consensus among scientists that signs of past or present life have been seen by Perseverance, once again, don't wait for a sl...

Scientists were left puzzled when a weird “spaghetti-like” object was spotted on Mars by the Perseverance rover. It sparked a lot of debate ...