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 ...

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 ...

MARS has announced the return of the Marathon bar which hasn’t been a permanent fixture on supermarket shelves for 34 years. But fans are still not happy with the chocolate giant ...

As one of Earth's closest neighbors in space, Mars has long captivated humans with the prospect of alien life located 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.

Mars, once a planet teeming with vast amounts of water, is now a dry, desolate landscape. The evidence for this ...

NASA plans to send humans on a scientific round trip to Mars potentially as early as 2035. The trip will take about six to seven months each way and will cover up to 250 million miles (402 million ...

which has never been documented on Mars. This rock type had been theorized to exist but never seen on the Martian landscape, according to Marca. "Are there other rocks like this near the Jezero ...

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 ...

NASA's Curiosity rover takes in a desolate view of Mars at Gale crater in 2021. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech Cold, dry, and barren: Mars doesn't look like it could be a haven for life — at least ...

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 ...

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