The first thing most people think of when they consider Mars is its deep red color. The Romans associated the planet with their god of war because it reminded them of blood while the ...

Starboat would be a vehicle of similar type to the current SpaceX Starship but scaled down by about a factor of five in mass. It could do a direct return from the Mars surface to Earth using 120 tons ...

Mar. 24, 2025 — The longest organic molecules identified to date on Mars have recently been detected. These long carbon chains, containing up to 12 consecutive carbon atoms, could exhibit ...

While the compounds themselves could have been constructed by non-living processes, the very fact they exist at all demonstrates the rover's ability to identify long organic molecules on the Martian ...

But these eerie structures aren’t the work of extraterrestrial arachnids—they’re the result of an explosive process happening ...

NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter commanded our attention when it captured 'otherworldly' photos of a curious wreckage on the planet's surface. The 1.8kg helicopter made history when it became the ...

“The Mariner 9 orbiter first imaged giant canyons on Hesperian surfaces of Mars in the 1970s, but they are generally viewed as representing catastrophic bursts of groundwater to the ...

During the trek, Hera also used its Hyperscout H hyperspectral imager to capture the surface of Mars and Deimos in 25 visible and near-infrared spectral bands. This imager gives a better sense of ...

In 2028, the European Space Agency (ESA) will launch the ExoMars mission, aiming to further analyze Mars' surface for organic compounds. Meanwhile, a joint NASA-ESA project plans to return Martian ...

NASA's Perseverance rover, which has been exploring Mars since 2021, fired its laser at some oddly pale rocks on the surface of the Red Planet—and found evidence that Mars may have once been ...

Researchers discovered evidence of a 'vacation-style' environment on the Red Planet, despite there being no visible liquid on the surface of Mars today. An international team of scientists used ...