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"What is it about Mars that has made it so prominent in our culture, almost more than any other celestial object?" ...
Teodoro Valente, president of the Italian Space Agency (known by its Italian acronym ASI), announced today (Aug. 7) that the ...
Mars Express orbiter has provided invaluable insights into this area, revealing how these geological features came to be and ...
This is because these objects formed “billions of years ago when liquid water still existed on the Red Planet. Water carried ...
The Martian forecast will almost always include a red sky but a recent panorama captured by NASA’s rover Perseverance shows what a blue sky would look like on the Red Planet.
Mars once had rivers, lakes, and possibly vast oceans—conditions far different from the dry, barren planet we know today.
That Red Planet renaissance was largely led by an informal group called the “Mars Underground,” a passionate band of graduate students that formed in 1981 to advocate for more Mars research ...
Tony Jordan, the respected British TV drama writer, has stepped down as a executive chairmain of 'Death In Paradise' producer ...
In early July, the Red Planet rises around 10:30 p.m. local daylight time and climbs highest around 3 a.m. It shines brilliantly at magnitude –2.2. But Mars doesn’t stand pat.
Astronomers found strong evidence that a gassy Jupiter-size world is orbiting one of three stars in the stellar system ...
The only problem is that Martians are already there, and when humans land on the red planet in the then-distant year of 1999, it doesn’t take long for the Martians to hunt them down.
And in 2012, Steltzner's last big project, the Curiosity rover, landed on the Red Planet. It's still exploring Mars today.