Mars

Meteoric Evidence Suggests Mars May Have a Subsurface Reservoir

It is a scientific fact that water exists on Mars. Though most of it today consists of water ice in…

10 years ago

Curiosity Mars Rover Stars In Discovery Television Documentary Tonight

For those following all the habitability results from the Curiosity rover lately, here's a special treat -- the Discovery Channel…

10 years ago

NASA’s Curiosity Rover detects Methane, Organics on Mars

On Tuesday, December 16, 2014, NASA scientists attending the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in San Francisco announced the detection…

10 years ago

Martian Teardrop: Here’s How The Sun Moves Over A Red Planet Year

Stand in the same spot every day. Take a picture of the Sun. What happens? Slowly, you see our closest…

10 years ago

New Map Shows ‘Marsquakes’ Shook Wet Valles Marineris Sand, NASA Says

Mars today is a planet that appears to be mostly shaped by wind, but that wasn't always the case. A…

10 years ago

Opportunity Mars Rover Plagued By Flash Memory Problems, But Carries On

NASA's aging Mars rover is still struggling with Flash memory after several months of controllers trying to work around frequent…

10 years ago

A Martian Blue Snake, Brought To You By Canadians And A Spacecraft

Here's the awesome thing about space and social media: in some cases, you can often follow along with a mission…

10 years ago

Mars Landing Recipe: Orion, A Big Rocket And Pretty-On-Paper Spacecraft

Can the just-flown Orion spacecraft truly get us to Mars? NASA has been portraying the mission as part of the…

10 years ago

Bizarre Mars: Did Lava Bubbles Wrinkle This Giant Circle?

NASA is puzzled by this "enigmatic landform" caught on camera by one of its Mars orbiters, but looking around the…

10 years ago

Curiosity Rover Data Indicates Gale Crater Mountain Used to be a Lake

What is now a mountain, was once a lake. That’s the conclusion of the Curiosity Mars rover science team after…

10 years ago