As it’s the basis for all life on Earth, detecting carbon on other planets usually gets scientists thrilled – and the Curiosity Rover on Mars has uncovered a unique blend of the chemical element that may conceivably indicate the presence ...
For centuries, mankind has wanted to go to Mars. But the costs to go there are huge, the fuel has to last for months, and not anybody would be willing to spend years away from Earth. To make things worse, ...
Mars is the place of hope for many astronomers. It’s very far away for us: the average distance is roughly 54 million kilometers. But the distance is nothing for the unfathomable distances that traverse the Universe. What’s for sure is ...
Under the oversight and safety of the Israeli Space Agency, a team of six – five men and one woman – have begun simulating what it will be like to live for about a month on the red planet. Underneath ...
We often hear about comparisons between Mars and Earth, but the differences between the two planets go beyond the fact that one has life and the other doesn’t (or at least that’s the official status.) A recent study claims that ...
Recently acquired data from late September 1 from NASA’s Perseverance rover is proof that the team reached its goal of obtaining a Mars rock. The initial images received after the amazing event depict a well-captured sample within the tube after ...
Mars, the fourth planet from the sun and Earth’s closest planetary neighbor, has a relatively thin atmosphere and no magnetic field to protect it from radiation. That makes Martian weather much more extreme than that of Earth. Mars is bombarded ...
Mars is not what you would expect an alien planet to be like. It has a thick atmosphere with much carbon dioxide, but it also has water ice at its poles and an unexplored interior with pockets of very intense ...
Mars has become the dream destination for many astronomers in recent years. Although humans probably won’t get the chance to move there, at least in the next decades or centuries, sending spacecraft on the Red Planet to gather as much ...
Our dusty planetary neighbor, Mars, has a bare and stark landscape. You may think that there’s nothing there to see, but recent data unveil something odd yet stunning. Seeing a volcanic plain pierced with impact craters is genuinely intriguing and ...
NASA’s Curiosity rover has detected tiny traces of methane on Mars several times in recent years. The emission could come from a geological process, but so far, scientists couldn’t really solve the mystery. What’s more intriguing is that Mars’ atmosphere ...
Thinking of life on Mars might be quite the challenge. And not only for us but for scientists, too. New data, however, show parts of Mars that have been habitable for thousands or even a million years. How is this ...
Even though astronomers are taking more and more seriously the idea to move to Mars in the next decades, humanity still has a lot more to learn about our neighbouring planet. Back in 2018, scientists discovered another incredible thing about ...
If you’re not a fan of doing your laundry at home, as many of us, maybe it’s time to do it somewhere else: high above the atmosphere. While it sounds like a bad joke, it’s actually the new plan of ...
If we take a look at the recent astronomical advancements and what many scientists want, building a little colony on Mars should be a feasible project for the next decades. China now joins the list of countries that are planning ...
The Curiosity rover offers a new fascinating glimpse of Mars, unveiling the planet’s thin atmosphere, and surprisingly, clouds! According to scientists, cloudy days are pretty rare on the Red Planet. They are, however, more frequent at the planet’s equator, but ...
NASA made history on April 19 with the first controlled flight on another planet. The little helicopter has bravely pierced the Martian atmosphere in what seemed to be one of the most challenging missions on Mars. And it didn’t stop ...
China is getting ready for a big space event soon, as rover Zhurong will finally land on Mars! The ambitious mission is part of a space programme that aims to raise the country’s global stature and technological might. The touchdown ...
NASA’s Perseverance is now examining the floor of an ancient Martian crater where once there was a lake. The new operational tasks unfold as Ingenuity, the mighty little helicopter ends its bold mission. The rover has been quite busy in ...
After making history on Mars (first controlled flight on another planet), NASA’s helicopter strikes again. The Perseverance rover captured an incredible low-pitched humming of Ingenuity’s blades as it flies through the Martian atmosphere. NASA released the footage with the audio ...
Mars’ volcanic activity has been quite a mystery for many decades. It puzzled scientists’ work, and it stirred one of the most intriguing theories. Are there active volcanoes on Mars? New research might be able to answer that question thanks ...
Thinking at NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter and wonder if there’s something it can’t do. Apparently, not. The bold helicopter completed its third flight on April 25 and is closer to its main goal than ever. Ingenuity made history first time on ...
The Chinese space agency (CNSA) launched a few months ago probe Tianwen-1 to Mars. The mission’s main goal is to survey the Red Planet, orbiting closer. Recent data sent by Tianwen-1 prove that the probe is also one of the ...
NASA’s Perseverance rover spotted a dust devil on Mars recently. Such an intriguing weather phenomenon takes place on our planet, too, and could help us better understand the Martian climate. Perseverance’s cameras captured the occurrence, and the footage is now ...
Our big old planetary friend is not the best host right now. Mars is known as an inhospitable planet, but in the future, this might change. Recent research shows that an intriguing bacteria, dubbed cyanobacteria, which is actually blue-green algae, ...