Like Earth, Mars was formed about 4.5 billion years ago, but its early surface was very different than today's. Mars' surface ...
Photosynthetic habitable zones' could exist beneath radiation-filtering ice on Mars, offering scientists another region in ...
If we’re going to live on Mars we’ll need a way to grow food in its arid dirt. Researchers think they know a way.
Curiosity’s exploration of Gale crater on Mars has uncovered new evidence about the planet’s climate evolution. By studying ...
A recent study by NASA researchers reveals that carbonates found in Mars' Gale Crater contain unusually high levels of heavy carbon and oxygen isotopes, painting a picture of a dramatically evolving ...
Mars is generally regarded as a place that can't support life, but new research sheds light on how the Red Planet evolved ...
Data from NASA's Curiosity rover collected on Mars is shedding new light on how the Red Planet became uninhabitable in the ...
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 evidence for widespread ...
Although evaporation can cause oxygen isotope changes on Earth, the changes measured in the Martian samples were two to three times greater, Burtt said. Astrobiologists believe caves like this one on ...
According to NASA, the discovery by Curiosity was made using its Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) and Tunable Laser Spectrometer ...