"The Gale lake environment, as revealed by these ancient rocks, gives us a window into a habitable environment." ...
Newfound rocks on Mars suggest the planet may have once sported an oxygen-rich atmosphere, making it more Earth-like and hospitable to life than previously thought. A collection of rocks scattered ...
Ancient Mars is believed to have been a wet world. Possibly it was a cold world, with frosts and floods, rather than a tropical paradise. It might have had a denser carbon dioxide atmosphere too ...
Potentially hazardous asteroids pose a risk to Mars missions, but they can also yield insight into the history of the Red ...
Astronomers have long puzzled over the origins on Phobos and Demos, the red planet's strangely-shaped moons. Now they are ...
When a meteorite smashed into Mars 11 million years ago, debris landed on Earth as meteorites, giving an unparalleled look at ...
Celestial Mystery Mysteries abound on the planet Mars — from the tantalizing traces of ancient riverbeds on its surface to ...
An unexpected tool is giving us new insight into the fine structure of the outer layers of Mars. Using meteorites that were ...
Mars, a planet often associated with a lifeless, dusty expanse, holds a puzzling amount of organic matter on its surface.
Meteorites from Mars are helping researchers better understand the geology of the Red Planet — and the formation of Earth.
In the following excerpt from his book, Shindell looks back at the accomplishments of the past 20 years, when NASA’s plucky ...