Associate Professor Yohey Suzuki at the University of Tokyo led the effort to develop a new way to prepare rock samples to search for life…
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NASA’s Mars Helicopter and its cruise stage undergo functional testing in the airlock inside Kennedy Space Center’s Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility on March 10, 2020.…
University of Arizona researchers probed Martian meteorites to reconstruct Mars’ chaotic history. Their findings suggest that Mars might not have had a global magma ocean.…
(Click image for full view.) This selfie was taken by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover on Feb. 26, 2020 (the 2,687th Martian day, or sol, of…
NASA’s Mars 2020 rover, now called Perseverance, undergoes processing at a payload servicing facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on February 14, 2020. Image Credit:…
Artist’s impression of the Rosalind Franklin ExoMars rover. This image shows a front view of the rover with the drill in a vertical position. Credit:…
This image of the Moreux crater in the Terra Sabaea region of Mars comprises data gathered on October 30, 2019, during orbit 20014. The ground…
Graphic depiction of Myco-architecture off planet: growing surface structures at destination. Credit: L. Rothschild Science fiction often imagines our future on Mars and other planets…
Mars is shaking. Credit: NASA / JPL – Caltech Fifteen months after the successful landing of the NASA InSight mission on Mars, first scientific analyses…
NASA’s Curiosity rover captured its highest-resolution panorama of the Martian surface between Nov. 24 and December 1, 2019. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS To go along with the…
A Southwest Research Institute team performed high-resolution, smoothed-particle simulations of a large, differentiated projectile hitting early Mars after its core and mantle had formed. The…
In this artist’s concept of NASA’s InSight lander on Mars, layers of the planet’s subsurface can be seen below and dust devils can be seen…
InSight is the first mission dedicated to investigating the deep interior of Mars. The findings will advance understanding of how all rocky planets, including Earth,…
While InSight’s seismometer has been patiently waiting for the next big marsquake to illuminate its interior and define its crust-mantle-core structure, two scientists, Takashi Yoshizaki…
NASA InSight recently moved its robotic arm closer to its digging device, called the “mole,” in preparation to push on its top, or back cap.…
Graphic illustrating radio signals from a remote station (bent purple line) interfering with a local station (black tower) after being reflected off a plasma layer…
NASA’s Curiosity rover has obtained the mineralogical and chemical data of ancient lake deposits at Gale Crater, Mars. The present study reconstructs water chemistry of…
This illustration depicts NASA’s next Mars rover, which launches in 2020. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Nine finalists have been chosen in the essay contest for K-12…
This image shows part of the ice cap sitting at Mars’ north pole, complete with bright swathes of ice, dark troughs and depressions, and signs…
[embedded content] What are the skywatching highlights of January 2020? The peak of the Quadrantid meteor shower, Mars rises with its “rival” — the red…