NASA heads to Death Valley to test new Mars drone tech
After reaching Mars with the Perseverance rover in early 2021, NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter proved a huge success as…
Strange White Rocks on Mars Suggest Mars Once Had Tropical Rainstorms Like Earth For Millions of Years
Purdue University research into scattered kaolinite rocks on Mars’ surface shows the dry, dusty planet could have featured…
NASA Rover Detects Electric Sparks in Mars Dust Devils, Storms
Perseverance confirmed a long-suspected phenomenon in which electrical discharges and their associated shock waves can be born within…
Scientists discover 16 giant river networks on ancient Mars where life could have thrived
Long before Mars turned into the frozen desert you see today, water shaped its surface in dramatic ways.…
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS heads toward Earth. How close will it get?
Here’s everything to know about 3I/ATLAS’s impending rendezvous with Earth and how you might be able to witness…
How one image taken from 3.7 billion miles away proved Earth is a speck in space
Voyager 1’s photographs included Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter, and Venus. According to NASA’s website, ‘Mars was obscured by…
NASA’s Perseverance rover captures sounds of lightning on Mars for first time
After decades of searching, it seems that lightning does occur on Mars — but it’s nothing like the…
NASA’s ESCAPADE mission has taken its first photo, and it’s good news
Mars is a planet that fascinates many scientists, notably regarding the presence of life elsewhere in the solar…
NASA discovers “clearest signs of life on Mars” ever found
NASA’s Perseverance Rover found claystones covered in markings nicknamed “leopard spots” and “poppy seeds”. (Image source: NASA) NASA’s…
Deep radar scan uncovers potential oasis under Mars’ frozen surface
Rather than assuming that modern Mars is too cold and dry to sustain liquid water, new evidence is…
LifeTracer: New AI tool can help identify life in Martian samples
As space agencies prepare to bring home pieces of the Martian system, the hope of finding life elsewhere…
NASA unveils close-up pictures of Comet 31/Atlas in our solar system
NASA has unveiled close-up pictures of an interstellar comet that’s making a quick dash around the solar system,…