Browsing: Mars

Dingo Gap in Gale CraterNASA/JPL-California Institute of Technology/MSSS From H.G. Wells’ Alien Invaders space war to MartianAs abandoned astronauts, we have long been inspired by the…

SpaceX founder Elon Musk is known for his outspokenness and controversial comments on his social media site X, but he has been relatively restrained when it…

NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter on Mars, photographed by the rover PerseveranceNASA/JPL-California Institute of Technology/ASU/MSSS The small helicopter finally completed its role this year. NASA’s Ingenuity drone made…

Mars meteorite called Black BeautyNASA Crystals within a Martian meteorite suggest Mars may have had abundant hydrothermal water when the rock formed 4.45 billion years ago.…

Earth is not doing so well. Thanks to human-induced climate change, oceans are warming and rising, while land in many places is suffocated by drought or…

Dangerous radiation reaches Mars at levels we would never be exposed to on Earth, making Mars an especially dangerous place to be during pregnancy

Topographic map of Mars showing Utopian plains that may have once been an oceanUnited States Geological Survey Possible ancient coastlines have been discovered in a region…

Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, the predecessor of the ChopperNASA/JPL-California Institute of Technology NASA is moving forward with plans to send another helicopter to Mars. The spacecraft was…

The Perseverance rover is exploring MarsNASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance has spotted what may be a human-visible aurora on Mars, the first time such aurora has…

Using images taken by the European Space Agency’s Mars Express spacecraft, researchers have created a cloud map of Mars to better understand the Red Planet’s climate.