NASA finds organic building blocks of life on Mars… along with peculiar methane variability in its atmosphere
Peering closer into Mars' potentially habitable past.
Tag: Mars
Making babies on Mars will be challenging and might even lead to a new species of humans
Are we ready for the biggest ethical challenges mankind has ever faced?
NASA wants to send a tiny helicopter along with the next 2020 rover mission
It will allow scientists to explore Mars like they could only imagine until now.
NASA lander will study ‘Marsquakes’
The quakes will help scientists learn more about Mars' interior.
NASA and ESA team up to bring Martian soil back home
A great partnership for a great goal.
A Martian puzzle: is this a supervolcano or an impact crater?
New images may be posing more questions than they answer.
NASA Explores the Use of Robotic Bees on Mars
Marsbees could cover a lot more ground on the Red Planet than sluggish rovers.
NASA’s next mission to Mars will map the planet’s interior, scheduled for May 5th
We'll learn more about our own home in the process, things that we never could here on Earth.
Water may, ironically, be the root of Mars’ dreariness — it could have sabotaged its magnetic field
The theory shows that as long as Earth's interior stays hot, it should avoid this fate.
Elon Musk publishes new academic paper detailing his plans to colonize Mars
Finally, a detailed presentation of what's perhaps the most audacious plan of the century.
An astronomer thought he discovered a new, bright star — turns out, it was just Mars
It's the rediscovery of the year.
Martian oceans may have been aided by massive volcanoes, research suggests
A song of fire and water, on Mars.
Pee, Poop, and Perspiration Will Be Useful in Traveling to Mars
Astronauts' waste will not be wasted.
Researchers create the ‘crop hotspot’ map of Mars so we know where to settle
All work and no food would make the colonists very sad. Also very, very dead.
NASA records fascinating Martian landscape of odd rock formation and sand dunes
Mars is still full of surprises.
Re-emerging life in Earth’s driest desert sparks hopes for life on Mars
Life, as they say, finds a way.
NASA could have an orbiting moon base by 2023
It's like an ISS, but for the Moon!
NASA is taking a Martian meteorite back home — for calibration purposes
The meteorite will be used in NASA's ambitious Mars 2020 mission.
The Search for Alien Life: We Have Been Looking in the Wrong Places
If there are any, aliens should be less conspicuous and charismatic-looking than most people think.
New panorama shows just how amazing Curiosity’s journey has been on Mars
It's a breathtaking view!
Tiny nuclear reactors might power the first Martian settlements
It's the first space-bound nuclear reactor in 50 years.
Brewing beer on Mars? Students find Martian soil is suitable for growing hops
Brace yourselves for Martian craft beer!
Cliffs of pure, blue water-ice spotted just below Mars’ surface
That's a lot of water.
What Curiosity found on Mars are probably just crystals — not fossils
This is likely not our first brush with alien life.
Atmospheric methane on Mars changes with the seasons — and we don’t really know why
We don't want to say there's life on Mars... but there could be life on Mars.
Not so dry after all: Mars lost much of its water to the crust
Mars might be abundant in water. The problem is its trapped in minerals inside the planet's crust.
Martian atmosphere is not threatened by solar wind
The findings imply that we don't really know how Mars' water disappeared.
Boeing wants to beat SpaceX to Mars. Elon Musk: “Do it”
The two companies are in a direct competition, and we just can't have enough of it.
MIT researchers design forest domes for Mars colonists
If we're going on Mars, we're going in style.
Earth worms can reproduce in Mars-like conditions, study shows
The worms could be crucial for a garden-like ecosystem if we ever want to establish a Martian colony.
That flowing briny water on Mars? It might just be sand
That's how science works sometimes.
Boiling water shapes Mars’ landscape, experiment reveals
It's not heat, but low pressure that drives this boiling.
NASA wants Curiosity Rover to resume drilling on Mars
It took a bit of creative tinkering, but significant progress has been reported.
NASA discovers Mars has a magnetic tail twisted by solar wind
Mars has an invisible magnetic tail and it might contribute to Martian atmospheric loss.
Methane bubbles may have kept Mars warm enough for liquid water billions of years ago
Burping methane may have bought Mars some extra time before it turned into a wasteland.
Powerful solar storm sparks the brightest Auroras on Mars we’ve recorded
The aurora was triggered by a solar storm which doubled radiation levels on the planet's surface.
Gravity map reveals Martian crust might be lighter than we thought
Mars may be more porous than we thought.
Waste not, want not: astronauts to turn pee into nutrients, tools on deep-space missions
Stay hydrated up there, ladies and gents.
Chemical compounds found in Martian soil suggest the planet’s surface is highly toxic
The prospect of finding life on Mars is getting bleaker.
Elon Musk shares his view of Mars colonization: one million people living in a self sustainable city
Shoot for the stars and you might just land on Mars.
Halos on Mars suggest the red planet may have been hospitable for far long longer than thought
Life had more time to appear or even thrive on Mars than we imagined.
Terraforming Mars: what it is and why we’d do something this crazy
Two planets are better than one. Here's everything you need to know about Mars terraformation.
It used to rain so hard on Mars it shaped the planet’s geology
A first of its kind study found rain on Mars was quite abundant.
Turns out you can make harder-than-concrete bricks on Mars simply by compressing soil
That's surprisingly convenient.
NASA is designing small away-from-home-ecosystems to make space exploration sustainable
Recycle everything!!!
The Martian atmosphere might be cruel and inhospitable but at least it has metal ions
Studying Mars' ionosphere and its metal ions might explain how the planet lost most of its atmosphere (and liquid water).
From fiction to reality: scientists grow potatoes in Mars-like conditions
Interplanetary potato, yeah!
Geological deposits hint at ancient ocean on Mars’ surface
Can't have a devastating water wave without water!
