Celebrating NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s 20th Anniversary: Crater Near Sirenum Fossae
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) captures a detailed view of a relatively fresh crater in this image released…
C.12 FAIMM Correction, Q&A update, and Webinar Materials Available
C.12 Foundational Artificial Intelligence for the Moon and Mars (FAIMM) is intended to enable individual researchers to participate…
High Resolution Stereo Camera Captures 3D Photos of Craters on Mars
Newly published high-resolution photos of Mars show some of the red planet’s many craters in exceptional, colorful detail.…
China challenging U.S. to become next great space power
China’s space program has hit a number of milestones lately. In 2025, China executed over 90 orbital launches,…
A Solar Superstorm Blasted Mars—and Its Atmosphere Freaked Out
When the surface of the Sun exploded with activity in May 2024, Earth was hit by the biggest…
Mars once had beaches like Earth! Radar data is revealing the buried shoreline |
Mars once had beaches like Earth (Image source: Canva) For decades, scientists have debated whether Mars once had…
Extremophile Bacteria May Hitch Rides on Asteroid Fragments
Earlier work has demonstrated that an extremophile bacterium species called Deinococcus radiodurans can survive the radiation, cold, and…
Rocket Lab Proposes Mars Telecommunications Orbiter for NASA’s $700M MTN Mission
NASA is moving forward with a $700 million Mars Telecommunications Network (MTN) mission designed to provide continuous communications…
Scientists Finally Found Something Tardigrades Can’t Survive
Tardigrades are tiny, endearing, and practically invincible. As it turns out, however, not even tardigrades can survive the…
How the Sun stripped Mars of its atmosphere
ⓘ NASA via Unsplash A simulated view of Mars Mars is now a shadow of its former self,…
Lightning on Mars: NASA’s MAVEN Orbiter Reveals a Strange Phenomenon on the Red Planet
Researchers have identified powerful Martian electrical discharges, similar to lightning, and strong enough to be observed from orbit,…
Short-term Survival Of Tardigrades In Martian Regolith Simulants
Images of tardigrades with mineral coatings. Each image is annotated with the sample, simulant and time of exposure…