Mars has an active, electrically charged surface where dust storms and spinning dust devils regularly move and reshape the landscape. Mars is often portrayed as a dry, empty world, but the planet is ...
Scientists believe modern technology to be crucial in 'supporting sustained missions' on Mars.
Mars may look quiet from a distance, but up close it is anything but ...
Mars is absolutely dripping with evidence that the red planet was once a striking blue, complete with glistening lakes, ...
Learn more about the hunt for bacteria on Mars and how astronauts will need to make sure they aren't bringing any dormant ...
A study by scientists at Penn State and NASA shows that intact biomolecules from dormant microbes break down much more slowly in pure water ice than they do in mixed soil samples. Ancient microbes, or ...
NASA’s Curiosity rover has photographed a bizarre, coral-shaped rock on Mars, believed to have formed billions of years ago.
The Curiosity Mars rover photographed more rocks that are shaped like coral on the red planet's surface. Researchers said the rocks were evidence that at one point water was on Mars. The Curiosity ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Two decades of observations by a pair of orbiting spacecraft have enabled scientists to track the whirlwinds called "dust devils" that regularly pirouette across the surface of ...