Visit ancient Mars—a surprisingly temperate planet where snow or rain falls from the sky, and rivers rush down valleys to ...

Scientists have long puzzled over why Mars, once protected by a global magnetic field like Earth, now shows only a magnetic imprint mostly concentrated in the planet’s southern hemisphere. A new study ...

The Red Planet offers a special geological record. Mars does not have plate tectonics and has very little wind or water erosion, unlike Earth, so its surface features have been preserved for billions ...

Curiosity’s Latest Discovery Working with the NASA Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity Rover team, Ben Tutolo, Ph.D., an associate professor with the Department of Earth, Energy and Environment in the ...

This system fills a critical time gap: when a rover arrives at a new location on Mars, it typically must wait for images to be sent back to Earth, reviewed by scientists, and then wait for new ...

That was fun, but it could have been a debate from 25 years ago. With the development of CRSPR technology and our emerging understanding of gene expressions ...

reshaping ideas about what kinds of life could exist beyond Earth. For the first time, scientists have shown that certain lichen species can survive Mars-like conditions, including exposure to ...

Here's what they might reveal about the origins of life in our universe—if we can get them back to Earth. Clouds of water ice can be seen drifting over ancient volcanoes on Mars. But billions of ...

Explore the immense technological challenge and potential for a second habitable planet by terraforming Venus ... s unconventional NASA pick signals Mars intentions in confirmation hearing ...

Martian soil contains perchlorates, harmful to humans. There have been numerous theories on how human beings might terraform Mars and render the Red Planet habitable. Some scientists have proposed ...

A Polish scientist has proposed a radical solution to terraform Mars by smashing icy asteroids from the Kuiper Belt into the planet. This approach aims to release vast amounts of water and ...

Things will, it seems, go as follows: we’ll return to the Moon, colonise Mars, move out to the stars ... it presently costs $10,000 per pound of weight to put an object into near-Earth orbit, which ...