NASA Tests Drones in Death Valley, Preps for Martian Sands and Skies
Next-generation drone flight software is just one of 25 technologies for the Red Planet that the space agency…
Tropical Storms Drenched Mars for Millions of Years, Strange Pale Rocks Suggest
That Mars once hosted water is now old news, but have you ever imagined the Red Planet drenched…
Astronauts Placed an Extreme Earth Organism in Outer Space. Nine Months Later, it Was Still Alive
When astronauts retrieved Earth moss that had been outside the International Space Station (ISS) for nine months, where…
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 Spacecraft Discovery Could Solve the Riddle of This Mysterious Feature Buried Under Thousands of Feet of Martian Ice
NASA scientists have made a discovery that is renewing the debate over an unusual feature hidden beneath thousands…
Scientists detect potential ‘mini-lightning’ strikes during Mars dust storms
Researchers have detected what may be the first evidence of lightning on Mars, according to a new scientific…
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Discovers Possible Meteorite on Mars for First Time in 5 Years
NASA’s Perseverance rover has likely spotted its first meteorite on Mars, more than four years after landing in…
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 Orbiter Shines New Light on Long-Running Martian Mystery
Results from an enhanced radar technique have demonstrated improvement to sub-surface observations of Mars. NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter…
NASA finds mysterious rock on Mars that doesn’t belong there
Mars is full of surprises, but this one had scientists leaning closer to their multi-monitor arrays: a rock,…
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…
Was there ever a Yellowstone on Mars?
Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This…