Life's capacity to survive in simulated lunar and Martian soils has been explored in two papers published in Scientific ...
Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.
Tests conducted with tardigrades suggest that there is something in Martian dirt that dramatically reduces biological ...
A storm from the Sun can make a planet’s sky glow or a spacecraft’s computer stumble. At Mars in May 2024, it did both, just without the auroras people photographed on Earth.
Why it matters: While not evidence of life, these discoveries show that ancient Mars had complex organic chemistry, ...
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NASA robot heads back to US for epic Mars mission after a decade in Scotland
NASA’s humanoid robot Valkyrie is heading back to the United States after spending a decade at the University of Edinburgh in ...
What happens when a solar superstorm hits Mars? Thanks to the European Space Agency's Mars orbiters, we now know: glitching ...
NASA's Curiosity rover just found bizarre nodules on giant Martian "spiderwebs." Scientists are puzzled.
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Time passes quite differently on Mars, and now we know how for the first time
We are closer to living on another planet than ever before.
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