The rocks, discovered by NASA's Curiosity rover, are unusually rich in manganese oxide — a chemical that adds to growing ...
Sharmila Kuthunur is a Seattle-based science journalist covering astronomy, astrophysics and space exploration. Follow her on X @skuthunur A collection of rocks scattered on an ancient shoreline on ...
Elon Musk’s SpaceX and its nemesis Blue Origin, already poised to compete over rocketing astronauts to the Moon, are ...
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.
Mars appears to be blasting material out of its atmosphere, much as the sun launches explosive coronal mass ejections, even though the Red Planet has no overall magnetic field. When the magnetic ...
NASA’s mission to retrieve a sample from Mars is over budget and behind schedule. But it may be our best chance to learn ...
Organic matter on Mars may have been formed due to atmospheric processes rather than have biological origin suggests researchers at Tokyo Tech. Using photolysis experiments and theoretical ...
On the scale of benign to cataclysmic events, the whomping impact of a Mars-sized object that crashed into Earth some 4.5 billion years ago ranks pretty highly: thought to have set in motion the ...
An ion might be to blame for an almost dry and devoid-of-water Venus. The planet, the second from the sun, is the hottest in the solar system. Its thick atmosphere holds in so much heat, and the ...
Of course, the Mars of today isn’t so hospitable—it’s atmosphere is nearly non-existent, riverbeds are dried up, and any water is now locked under Mars iron oxide-rich soil or CO2-filled ice caps. In ...