Mars
Don't Get Your Hopes Up for Finding Liquid Water on Mars
In the coming decades, NASA and China intend to send the first crewed missions to Mars. Given the distance involved…
NASA is Considering Other Ways of Getting its Mars Samples Home
In 2021, NASA's Perseverance rover landed in the Jezero Crater on Mars. For the next three years, this astrobiology mission…
Frost Seen on Olympus Mons for the First Time
It’s been known for years that there are large quantities of water ice locked up in the Martian poles. Around…
How Mars’ Moon Phobos Captures Our Imaginations
For a small, lumpy chunk of rock that barely reflects any light, Mars' Moon Phobos draws a lot of attention.…
Highlights from the 10th Achieving Mars Workshop
Back in December, NASA officials, space industry experts, members of the academic community, and science communicators descended on Washington, D.C.,…
Life Probably Played No Role in Mars’ Organic Matter
The Martian surface shows ample evidence of its warm, watery past. Deltas, ancient lakebeds, and dry river channels are plentiful.…
What’s Under This Hole on the Surface of Mars?
Human visitors to Mars need somewhere to shelter from the radiation, temperature swings, and dust storms that plague the planet.…
Mars InSight Has One Last Job: Getting Swallowed by Dust on the Red Planet
Normally you don't want dust to get into your spacecraft. That was certainly true for the InSight mission to Mars,…
Could Martian atmospheric samples teach us more about the Red Planet than surface samples?
NASA is actively working to return surface samples from Mars in the next few years, which they hope will help…
New Answers for Mars’ Methane Mystery
Planetary scientists perk up whenever methane is mentioned. Methane is produced by living things on Earth, so it's considered to…