Newfound rocks on Mars suggest the planet may have once sported an oxygen-rich atmosphere, making it more Earth-like and ...
Elon Musk’s SpaceX and its nemesis Blue Origin, already poised to compete over rocketing astronauts to the Moon, are ...
NASA’s mission to retrieve a sample from Mars is over budget and behind schedule. But it may be our best chance to learn ...
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.
Fragments of Planet Theia appear to be buried deep beneath Africa and the Pacific Ocean. And now more evidence has been found ...
NASA and the European Space Agency will search together for signs of life on Mars, the U.S. space administration announced ...
The European Space Agency’s Trace Gas Orbiter captured these “spiders” with stunning clarity near a south polar region called ...
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 ...
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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 ...