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Strange cone-shaped rocks led scientists to the hidden remains of one of Earth’s oldest asteroid impacts. It could help us find fossil life on Mars.
Mars, often imagined as a lifeless desert battered by radiation and cold, holds within its crust the haunting memory of a ...
The discovery of more than 15,000 kilometers of ancient riverbeds on Mars suggests that the Red Planet may once have been ...
For example, unlike Earth, Mars has no magnetosphere, which protects a planet from solar wind and cosmic radiation. Without a ...
Why is Mars barren and uninhabitable, while life has always thrived here on our relatively similar planet Earth?
Scientists thought this crater in Australia was the world’s oldest – but an independent analysis shows they might be off by ...
Researchers show algae can grow in Mars-like atmospheric pressure conditions. If humans are ever to establish permanent ...
NASA's beleaguered Mars Sample Return mission may get a reprieve from an unexpected source. Lockheed Martin has proposed a ...
Researchers are developing bioplastic bubbles from algae that could grow, repair, and protect habitats on Mars without ...
Look up! Mars is at its closest to Earth until 2035 today (Oct. 6), making it a perfect time to see the Red Planet with your own eyes. Today at 10:18 a.m. EDT (1418 GMT), Mars swoops within ...
This Monday evening (May 30) at 5:35 p.m. ET, Mars will be the closest it has been to Earth since Oct. 5, 2005: 0.50321377 astronomical units (AU), or 46,762,695 miles . (One AU is the average ...
Mars and Earth are farthest apart when they are both at aphelion and on opposite sides of the sun. Here, they can be 250 million miles (401 million km) apart according to the New York Times.