NASA’s Opportunity rover just discovered possible evidence of water on Mars
Mars is a big, dusty, dry ball of rock, sand, and dust… we think. Believe it or not, despite the fact that NASA has several …
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NASA is going to return an ancient Mars rock to its home planet
An incredibly old Martian relic will soon be headed back from the planet where it originated thanks to the Mars 2020 mission. The space agency …
Scientists are simulating Mars in one of the most inhospitable places on Earth
Mars might be the next place humans visit but it’s not exactly the kind of place you’d want to hang out just for fun. It’s …
NASA’s rover Opportunity celebrates 14 years on Mars, almost 14 years longer than planned
When it comes to NASA hardware, the Mars rover Opportunity might be the most incredible success story in the history of the group. Sure, countless …
NASA is testing tiny nuclear reactors that can sustain life on Mars
Mars is very much en vogue right now. NASA is focused on exploring Mars, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk wants to colonize Mars, and astronomers all …
Mars is hiding huge water reserves just under its surface
It’s been a generally-agreed fact for years that Mars is hiding significant ice deposits. But the size and location of the frozen water has been …
Did NASA’s Mars rover just find ancient Martian fossils?
If you’re one of the many casual science observers hoping that mankind will one day discover evidence that life once thrived on Mars, 2017 was …
Scientists have a new theory about where the Mars ocean went, and it totally sucks
Water on Mars has been an incredibly hot topic this year. Researchers have, at times, butted heads with others, and for every piece of evidence …
Brand new Pacific island is a whole lot like Mars, and scientists are excited
It’s not often that a whole new chunk of land just comes jutting out of the ocean, but that’s just what happened with a new …
Why did NASA’s rover just find a cannonball on Mars?
Humanity has still yet to find real, concrete, scientifically-supported evidence of extraterrestrial life. We’ve gotten pretty close, and discovered some chemical markers and other indications …
Worms born in Martian soil suggest farming on Mars is possible
The prospect of a human colony on Mars has rapidly moved from science fiction to reality in recent years, with space agencies like NASA, ESA, …
Budweiser vows to be first beer on Mars, and will send barley into space next month as a start
Like it or not, humanity won’t be able to live on Earth forever. If we don’t wipe out our own species by the time we …
Scientists are having a hard time explaining a peculiar feature on Mars
Thanks to the efforts of NASA and various other space agencies from around the world, we’ve learned more about Mars in the past decade or …
Space agency wants to grow strawberries and tomatoes on Mars
NASA and the European Space Agency already have countless proposed and tentative plans to further explore Mars and potentially even land humans on the planet …
Some insane people think this weird triangle is a crashed alien ship on Mars
Mars is one of the most studied and scrutinized of all the planets in our Solar System, and space agencies have sent probes, orbiters, and …
Russian man says he lived on Mars in a past life, and that Martians are still there
There are lots of crazy people walking around on our planet, and even if they honestly believe some of the things they say — that …
NASA’s next Mars rover will have 23 eyes
If you thought the Mars Curiosity rover — which has already delivered some incredible insights about Mars and even figured out how to use its …
Is this a crashed alien spaceship on Mars?
Amateur paranormal investigators routinely claim that they’ve spotted signs of ancient alien civilizations in material published by NASA — from “alien skulls” to structures that …
NASA is about to do something with the Curiosity rover it never could have planned
NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has already delivered some gorgeous views of the red planet and provided scientists with an incredible wealth of data regarding one …
There’s electricity on the Martian moon Phobos, and it’s driving scientists nuts
NASA loves Mars because it’s the closest planet in our Solar System that can be explored with current technology, and might even have hosted life …
NASA just discovered that Mars has a tail, and it’s incredibly unusual
Jupiter has a bunch of moons, Saturn has rings, and Earth has life (that’s pretty cool), but what about Mars? Well, as it turns out, …
Want to send your name to Mars? Now’s your chance!
NASA is sending a spacecraft to Mars next year that is going to look inside the Red Planet and attempt to learn things about our …
Massive Martian waterbody that dwarfed the Great Lakes once dominated Mars
Scientists have known for some time that Mars once had lots and lots of water — in fact, some of it is still there — …
NASA might actually modify the DNA of astronauts going to Mars
Astronauts are some of the bravest men and women on the face of the planet, but the first crew to venture past the Moon and …
Lockheed Martin’s reusable Mars lander looks absolutely awesome
Humans are going to Mars. We don’t know exactly when, who it will be, or exactly what spacecraft will be the first to make the …
Simulated Mars settlement will be built near Dubai, spanning 1.9 million square feet
Humans aren’t quite ready to make the journey to the red planet just yet, but once we are, we’ll need to know exactly what kind …
‘Martian’ scientists emerge from eight months in isolation on Hawaiian volcano
Hawaii is one of the most popular vacation destinations on the planet so it’s obviously a pretty great place to spend some time, being cooped …
New discovery hints that Mars could have once supported life
The Mars we see today is a far cry from what it looked like many millions or even billions of years ago. The planet’s dry, …
NASA’s next Mars spacecraft is going to look inside the planet, and nobody knows what it might find
NASA’s Mars rovers regularly send back awesome images of the red planet, not to mention an incredible wealth of scientific data, but that’s not stopping …
Astronaut pee could be turned into plastics
Astronauts are masters at recycling, and the brave space farers aboard the International Space Station already repurpose urine and the humidity they exhale into drinking …
