Mars looks familiar from afar, but surviving there means creating a protective oasis in a hostile world. Instead of shipping ...

When NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned its samples from the asteroid Bennu in late 2023, it revealed a surprising find: molecules associated with life, like amino acids and nucleobases, were present ...

Recently, NASA revealed exciting details of new findings from Mars. Scientists have discovered tiny patterns of unusual minerals in the clay-rich rocks on the edge of Jezero Crater—an ancient lake ...

NASA Curiosity rover, which launched from Florida in 2011, captured panoramic image of Mars that resembles a sunset on Earth.

Mars once had sprawling river systems that rivaled major watersheds on Earth, and scientists have now identified the biggest ...

NASA's Perseverance robot, depicted here landing on the Martian dunes, used its cutting-edge cameras to image what could be the first evidence of life ever detected on Mars, opening the possibility ...

"This is the moment where the metal detector has gone off and you've dug up something shiny. You still need to find out exactly what you've got — but you've got something to work with." When you ...

Skylights, openings in the surface of Mars that descend down into caves, have been found on Mars, along with signatures for the presence of water ice. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

NASA's Viking landers were the first spacecraft to successfully touch down on the surface of Mars. NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP Finding life beyond the Earth would be a major scientific discovery with ...

Black swans entered the public vernacular in 2007 with the publication of Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. Black swans are unexpected events, outliers ...

Seán Jordan receives funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 1101114969) and from Research ...