Ancient Mars may have been surprisingly similar to planet Earth, a NASA rover has revealed. Using the ChemCam instrument on NASA's Curiosity rover, research teams from the Los Alamos National ...
Humans can't help being fascinated by space. That interest seems to be making the possibility of moving humanity to another ...
The same storm that gave us a view of the northern lights last month also delivered a healthy dose of radiation to Mars' ...
Mars is said to be a planet that is particularly similar to Earth in the solar system, and evidence of the existence of water in the past and organic compounds that may be signs of life have been ...
Computer simulations suggest that a collision with another planetary object early in Earth’s history may have provided the ...
Potentially hazardous asteroids pose a risk to Mars missions, but they can also yield insight into the history of the Red ...
May 31, 2024 — Mars has a distinct structure in its mantle and crust with discernible reservoirs, and this is known thanks to meteorites that scientists have analyzed. These results are ...
A new study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets details the discovery of a Mars mineral that forms on Earth within a river, delta, or a shoreline of a ancient lake, leading ...
When a meteorite smashed into Mars 11 million years ago, debris landed on Earth as meteorites, giving an unparalleled look at ...
The conventional wisdom about Mars' small and misshapen moons, Phobos and Deimos, is that they were either created like Earth's Moon — carved out of the planet by an impact with a huge object — or ...
Mars may face more than twice as many close encounters with potentially dangerous asteroids as Earth does, according to a new study. This could imperil exploratory missions to the Red Planet, but ...
Potentially hazardous asteroids pose a risk to Mars missions, but they can also yield insight into the history of the Red Planet and the early solar system, new research suggests. Mars may face ...