A volcanic lake's silent exhalation became the deadliest natural disaster nobody heard coming—teaching scientists that some catastrophes announce themselves not with a bang, but with an invisible, suffocating fog.
Dubai (AFP) Feb 17, 2026 - The United Arab Emirates announced on Tuesday that it would extend its Mars probe mission, now in its fifth year, for an additional three, underlining the oil-rich state's space ambitions.
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 17, 2026 - NASA has set clear goals at Mars: search for evidence of ancient life, understand the planet's climate and geology, and prepare for human exploration. Those objectives depend on a robust link betwee
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 17, 2026 - The results from our first visit to the 'Nevado Sajama' drill location were intriguing enough to motivate our return to do a deeper dive into the minerals and compounds locked in this rock with SAM
Boulder CO USA (SPX) Feb 13, 2026 - What appears to be a single volcanic eruption is often the result of complex processes operating deep beneath the surface, where magma moves, evolves, and changes over long periods of time. To fully
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 08, 2026 - In a new study, researchers say that non-biological sources they considered could not fully account for the abundance of organic compounds in a sample collected on Mars by NASA's Curiosity rover.
Pasadena CA (SPX) Feb 08, 2026 - Mars has emerged from its holiday behind the Sun, and we here on Earth have been able to reconnect with Curiosity and get back to work on Mars. Our first planning day last Friday gave Curiosity a fu
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 06, 2026 - NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has completed the first AI planned drives ever carried out on another planet, using a vision capable generative AI system to map out safe routes across the rim of Jeze
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Feb 06, 2026 - Bacteria that thrive on Earth may not survive easily on Mars, where the soil contains toxic perchlorate salts at levels that can reach about 1 percent by weight. Researchers at the Indian Institute
London, UK (SPX) Jan 30, 2026 - New findings from NASAs Perseverance rover have revealed evidence of wave-formed beaches and rocks altered by subsurface water in a Martian crater that once held a vast lake - considerably expanding
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 13, 2026 - Using high resolution images from several Mars orbiters, an international team led by the University of Bern has identified a system of fan deltas in southeast Coprates Chasma that record the highes
Riverside, CA (SPX) Jan 12, 2026 - At half the size of Earth and one-tenth its mass, Mars is a featherweight as far as planets go. And yet, new research reveals the extent to which Mars is quietly tugging on Earth's orbit and shaping
St. Louis MO (SPX) Jan 08, 2026 - Mars, often depicted as a barren red planet, is far from lifeless. With its thin atmosphere and dusty surface, it is an energetic and electrically charged environment where dust storms and dust devils
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 08, 2026 - Martian winds lift sand grains into the air and drive them across the surface, where they erode soft sedimentary layers and gradually carve elongated grooves and ridges near the planet's equator. Th
Houston TX (SPX) Jan 06, 2026 - Small lakes on ancient Mars may have remained liquid for decades, even with average air temperatures well below freezing. Using a climate model adapted for Martian conditions, a team of researchers
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 03, 2026 - From its perch on a rugged ridge in Gale Crater, NASA's Curiosity rover has stitched together a holiday postcard that doubles as a science panorama, framing the Nevado Sajama drill site against a ha
