Oct. 7, 2024 — NASA's Curiosity rover, currently exploring Gale crater on Mars, is providing new details about how the ancient Martian climate went from potentially suitable for life -- with ...

New research from the University of Arizona suggests an unexpected connection between the Lower Colorado River Basin and the surface of Mars, offering a potential window into the ancient climate ...

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It symobilizes a website link url. Copy Link Elon Musk has set out his latest timeline for getting humans to Mars, and experts say it's a classic SpaceX move. The SpaceX founder said in a recent ...

Where exactly did Mars' atmosphere go? This question has been a central mystery of Mars' 4.6-billion-year history. For two MIT geologists, the answer may lie in the planet's clay. In a paper ...

New research suggests the atmosphere of Mars may be hiding in plain sight, having been absorbed by minerals in the Red Planet's clays. If Mars' envelope of gas did "go to ground" over 3 billion ...

CEO Elon Musk says his company plans to launch five uncrewed Starships to Mars in two years. Musk announced the plans in an X post Sunday afternoon, September 22. The goal aligns with his ...

NASA's Mars Perseverance rover has encountered something unlike anything else discovered on the Red Planet: a zebra-striped rock that sticks out like a sore thumb in the midst of the planet's ...

NASA's Perseverance rover found an odd zebra-striped rock while exploring Jezero Crater on Mars in September 2024. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / ASU On Mars, some 120 million miles away in space ...

The Perseverance team nicknamed this unusual striped rock "Freya Castle." Mars fans have been abuzz since NASA’s Perseverance rover spotted an extraordinary rock on Sept. 13. A raw image sent ...