"You need so much water that we think these could be evidence of an ancient warmer and wetter climate where there was rain falling for millions of years." ...

Perchlorate, a toxic substance found in Mars dirt, could help the bacterium Sporosarcina pasteurii strengthen bonds between particles of regolith.

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Mars is not just a colder, dustier version of Earth. It is a planet soaked in high‑energy particles that batter rock, metal, ...

Advances in technology have reopened the debate over terraforming Mars, shifting it from an impossible dream to a long-term scientific and ethical question.

What everyone agrees on is that NASA needs a new spacecraft capable of relaying communications from Mars to Earth. This issue ...

Nearly 14 years ago, NASA’s Curiosity rover landed on Mars for a mission to explore the red planet and discover if it had an environment capable of supporting microbial life. Over the years, the rover ...

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(Reuters) -A geomagnetic storm on Earth triggered by a large burst of solar radiation has temporarily grounded a Blue Origin rocket carrying twin NASA satellites built to measure space weather on Mars ...

NASA has lost contact with its MAVEN spacecraft that has been orbiting Mars for more than a decade. The orbiter, one of three zooming around Mars' atmosphere, had been working as expected before it ...

NASA lost contact with its MAVEN Mars orbiter in early December and has been unable to reconnect with the vehicle. NASA plans to resume efforts to hail the spacecraft now that the solar conjunction ...