For decades, scientists have pondered whether Mars, that dry, red desert swirling in dust storms and alien landscapes, once held an ocean teeming with water. Now, a groundbreaking new study from China’s Zhurong rover mission has stirred up the debate ...
It is difficult to predict exactly when humans will land on Mars, as it depends on a number of factors, including technological advancements, funding, and political will. Several space agencies and private companies around the world have announced plans to ...
Did you ever wonder what snow looks like on Mars? Thanks to a recent Mars photograph, we can see how ice and snow cover the ground in a beautiful but twisted winter wonderland. Discover the full story below and learn ...
Mars is quite shaky, and now we have more proof. A seismic event recorded on our neighbor planet is now the greatest ever detected, with a magnitude of 4.7. Five times stronger than the InSight lander’s previous greatest earthquake on ...
Two new samples of regolith from the Mars 2020 Perseverance mission could aid researchers and engineers in their study of the Red Planet and planning of future missions. The NASA Perseverance rover collected two more samples from Mars on December ...
There is hope that the Perseverance rover has discovered organic molecules in the Jezero Crater rocks. Organic chemicals have been detected on Mars before, according to previous investigations. There is data to support this from the Curiosity rover, the Mars ...
Mars may not have always had a weak magnetic field or an atmosphere with only 1% of Earth’s pressure. Depositional and erosional processes, ubiquitous on Earth and triggered by water, might readily explain many of the surficial features of Mars, ...
Going to Mars and living there is a lot more complicated than in sci-fi movies, although we might learn a thing or two from Matt Damon’s character from ‘The Martian’ movie. Scientists need as much information about the Red Planet’s ...
Astronomers might get closer to the answer to the centuries-old question: is there life on Mars? Ever since Galileo Galilei discovered our neighboring planet back in 1610, it became clear that astronomers would have a lot of work to do. ...
Nine times, with the help of advanced parachutes, huge airbags, and jetpacks, NASA has managed to land spacecraft on the surface of Mars. Now, engineers are looking at whether or not a crash landing is the quickest way to the ...
Taking a look at those distant objects in the Universe, such as galaxies and stars, is so mainstream when it comes to astronomy! Why not study the planets of our Solar System more, instead? Who knows what we can find! ...
The Perseverance rover, which is operated by NASA, has recently made a finding that has a large deal of people who are expecting to uncover signs of life beyond Earth extremely thrilled. The finding is that there are organics on ...
New results show how many different types of samples the agency’s geologists and future scientists working on the Mars Sample Return program will have to analyze. The soil that NASA’s six-wheeled Mars rover, Perseverance, has been travelling on since arriving ...
Recent findings provide light on a hitherto unexplored area of Mars with a wet history and the potential it holds for the NASA-ESA Mars Sample Return mission. The Perseverance rover, now deep in its second scientific campaign, is drilling rock ...
NASA’s rover provides the most comprehensive image of Mars’ surface we’ve ever seen! Perseverance succeeded in scanning a great 2.5 billion pixels of Martian ground, and now more data is available. Read the full report below and explore Mars in ...
Ingenuity strikes again with its 31st flight on Mars! This time, NASA’s helicopter takes a chance to explore some ancient Martian ground. The Perseverance rover, the little helicopter’s companion, has been investigating the remains of a long-dry river delta for ...
New hints revealed by the European Space Agency (ESA) testify to the Red Planet’s once-watery history. The findings are genuinely intriguing. The option with the biggest promise is still Mars, our next-door cosmic neighbor, even if the quest for life ...
NASA’s Moxie (Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment) has created almost 100 minutes of breathing oxygen, increasing prospects for future crewed expeditions. MOXIE succeeded in developing oxygen even if extreme temperatures and dust storms threatened the mission. It actually continued ...
Since the Mars Perseverance Rover landed on Mars, it has been a fascinating year and a half. Now, fresh data is coming in, and it contains a few surprises. The rover, roughly the size of a car and equipped with ...
A new map that took years to create shows us where on Mars we can locate evidence of water that existed in the past. Researchers from the European Space Agency (ESA) and the United States Agency for Space Exploration (NASA), ...
We don’t know yet how, when, or who will be the lucky passengers, but it seems inevitable that humans will land on Mars. Apart from being a highly-ambitious goal, we can also see it as an important step in exploring ...
Getting to Mars is obviously no child’s play. But once astronomers figure out completely how to land there, they’ll have to grow some plants on the Martian soil as well. While the Red Planet doesn’t have any plants now, as ...
Let’s admit it: despite the huge amount of knowledge that astronomers have about the Universe, sending astronauts to the nearest planet to us is still difficult. At its closest approach, Mars is still tremendously farther away from Earth than the ...
Sending the first astronauts to Mars is hard enough, as space agencies still struggle to find out exactly how to do it. But perhaps bringing rock samples from the Red Planet in order to study them up-close on Earth will ...
China’s National Space Administration (CNSA) reported on June 29 that the Tianwen-1 space probe has skilfully obtained photographs of the whole Red Planet over a year of exploration. “Quest for Heavenly Truth” Tianwen-1 is composed of six different spacecraft: an ...