Now Wiens leads the research team that uses SuperCam’s tools to make discoveries on Mars. Researchers observed the small, pale pebbles in the Martian soil the first day the rover landed. But the rover ...

Credit: Victor Habbick Visions / Science Photo Library / Getty Images illustration Scientists have used orbiters and rovers to find dried streams, lakes, and gullies on Mars that hint at its ...

Sometimes scientists must dig and work and sweat to make scientific discoveries. And sometimes a robot rolls over a rock that turns out to be a revelation.

Previous studies of the iron oxide component of the Martian dust based on spacecraft observations alone did not find evidence of ... present-day conditions on Mars." Other studies have also ...

The most recent vehicles to have traversed the Red Planet’s surface – the Perseverance and Curiosity rovers ... So, apart from Mars, the search for other forms of life is focused on ...

Getting to 1% of the speed of light, tens of thousands of bombs, each ... Mars Mars is likely to have the necessary materials, particularly sulfur, to make sulfuric acid on-site, enhancing the ...

Within the next decade, space agencies plan to bring samples of rock from Mars to Earth for study. Of concern is the possibility these samples contain life, which could have unforeseen consequences.

After analyzing over 800 samples collected by astronauts in multiple modules of the United States Orbital Segment in the ISS, Benitez and his team concluded the microbial and chemical environment on ...

Even in the inner solar system, spacecraft such as lunar or Mars rovers need alternative power ... of RTGs can help keep electronics and the other components of a deep-space mission warm and ...