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The full buck moon will reach its peak illumination on Thursday, July 10. It’s just one of this month’s celestial highlights.
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.
Fantasizing about life on Mars is more escapism than solution; this article breaks down the real reasons we should stop looking to the stars and start fixing what’s right here on Earth.
If we're to land humans on Mars in the coming decades, we'll have to know what challenges await them when they get there.
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has learned to pull off daring 120-degree rolls that give its SHARAD radar ...
Mars, often imagined as a lifeless desert battered by radiation and cold, holds within its crust the haunting memory of a ...
Arsia Mons, which dwarfs Earth’s tallest volcanoes, and its two neighboring volcanoes are often surrounded by water ice ...
Discovered in Niger in 2023, the rare chunk weighs 54 pounds and represents more than 6 percent of all Mars material on Earth ...
Another highlight from the category is the “largest piece of Mars on Earth.” The Martian Meteorite, which Sotheby’s has ...
While definitions of masculinity run the gamut from divine to deplorable, scientists argue that all men can be categorized in one of six archetypes of masculinity.
Bluish-white Regulus in Leo is moving toward the western horizon and sets around 10 p.m. in mid-July, followed a couple of ...
As the administration slashes spending on science, NASA is running low on new missions.