Top British astronomer, Lord Martin rees of Ludlow, says that the most astronomers would be that there is alien life on some ...
When a meteorite smashed into Mars 11 million years ago, debris landed on Earth as meteorites, giving an unparalleled look at ...
Celestial Mystery Mysteries abound on the planet Mars — from the tantalizing traces of ancient riverbeds on its surface to ...
“Martian meteorites are the only physical materials we have available from Mars,” said James Day from UC San Diego, who led ...
Astronomers have long puzzled over the origins on Phobos and Demos, the red planet's strangely-shaped moons. Now they are ...
The conventional wisdom about Mars’ small and misshapen moons, Phobos and Deimos, is that they were either created like Earth ...
Perseverance will stay on Mars forever, but the majority of its carefully packaged samples are meant to return to Earth. The ...
A mysterious hole was captured on the surface of Mars by the High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera of ...
Mar. 13, 2024 — A deeply eroded giant volcano, active from ancient through recent times and with possible remnants of glacier ice near its base, had been hiding near Mars' equator in plain sight.
The Chassigny meteorite in cross-polarized light. This meteorite is dominated by the mineral olivine. Grains are roughly 0.5 millimeters across. Credit: UC San Diego. Researchers at the Scripps ...
In the following excerpt from his book, Shindell looks back at the accomplishments of the past 20 years, when NASA’s plucky ...
On Oct. 13, 2023, SpaceX Falcon Heavy launched the Psyche spacecraft from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This mission is a significant step toward a new frontier in space exploration: the ...