Ingenuity was looking at some of the landing equipment responsible for delivering it and the Perseverance rover safely to the ground. It was all part of the ...

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What steps can be taken to safeguard future human missions to Mars? This is what a recent study presented at the Royal Astronomical Society’s National Astronomy Meeting 2025 hopes to address as a ...

A type of Martian aurora first identified by NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft in 2016 is actually the most common form of aurora occurring on the Red Planet, according to new results from the mission The ...

The growing list of “firsts” for Perseverance, NASA’s newest six-wheeled robot on the Martian surface, includes converting some of the Red Planet’s thin, carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere into oxygen. A ...

The Perseverance Mars rover's Mastcam-Z camera the Martian moon Phobos transit the Sun. See real-time and time-lapsed views ...

Sending anything to Mars is a much more difficult process than it seems. In the 1960s, the Soviet Union tried (and failed) in its first nine consecutive attempts, and the US was only able to succeed ...

Do the ice caps on the southern pole of Mars bury a secret reservoir of liquid water? A signal detected by Mars Advanced ...

Daniel is a University of Louisville graduate with an English degree, a sizable collection of Blu-rays, books, records, and a love of hiking. While Ridley Scott has made many historical epics and ...

The largest piece of Mars to ever make its way to Earth is now also the most valuable meteorite in the world. The large space rock, which has the scientific name of NWA 16788, had its Martian origins ...

A vacuum vessel that can simulate the harsh conditions on our planetary neighbour is an ideal testing ground for space instrumentation. Jesús Sobrado, Juan Manuel Manchado and Jose Angel Martín-Gago ...