Scientists simulated the conditions of Mars in a lab to observe how blocks of carbon dioxide "dug" their way through the ...
The method, developed by researchers at the State University of Campinas in Brazil, uses images of dune surfaces to estimate ...
The recent detection of potential signs of ancient microbial life on Mars by NASA’s Perseverance rover has sparked renewed ...
Mars has two permanent polar ice caps of water ice and some dry ice, and a few patches of ice both on and under the surface.
Ancient explosive volcanic eruptions on Mars could help explain mysterious hints of buried ice from the Red Planet's equator, ...
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NASA’s rovers and orbiters take digital photos, send them as radio signals to orbiters, which relay them across space to ...
If life ever existed on Mars, traces of it might still be frozen beneath the planet's icy surface.
Because it could not reliably detect surface details, the helicopter's velocity estimate drifted, leading to a ...
Researchers simulated Martian permafrost and ice cap conditions in a laboratory, exposing *Escherichia coli* samples in pure water ice and water-sediment mixtures to cosmic radiation equivalent to 50 ...
New study shows Mars went through shrinking ice ages, revealing how it lost water and where future missions might find what's left.
Starship, which has launched 11 times in South Texas, was NASA's vehicle of choice to land astronauts on the moon. Now the ...