Sydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 15, 2025 - Life on Mars, if it ever existed, would need to survive an environment defined by violence and toxicity - from meteorite impacts to soil laced with corrosive perchlorate salts. Now, scientists at th
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 15, 2025 - Mysterious gullies carved into Martian sand dunes have long puzzled planetary scientists. Now, new experiments by Utrecht University Earth scientist Dr Lonneke Roelofs suggest they were dug not by f
Aberystwyth, Wales (SPX) Oct 13, 2025 - The search for life on Mars takes a leap forward today, as a key instrument for a major space mission begins its journey from Aberystwyth University to Italy for testing. The infrared spectrom
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 10, 2025 - Scientists have long debated how much water Mars once held and how it faded to today's arid world. A new study in Geology mines ice archives preserved inside impact craters to reconstruct a climat
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 09, 2025 - Simulation results from Stevens Institute of Technology researchers Iser Pena and Hao Chen indicate that who you send to Mars matters as much as what you send. Published October 8, 2025 in PLOS One,
Paris, France (SPX) Oct 09, 2025 - Combing 20 years of Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter imagery, ESA-led researchers cataloged 1,039 dust devils to show how surface winds loft and transport dust across Mars. Published in Sc
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 09, 2025 - Despite Mars's tenuous air, winds there play a dominant role in climate and dust transport. An international team led by the University of Bern reports that dust devils and the winds enveloping them
Perth, Australia (SPX) Oct 06, 2025 - Curtin University is helping unlock the secrets of life on Mars and advance next-generation robotics and autonomous systems, with two new international agreements signed this week at the Internation
Paris, France (SPX) Oct 01, 2025 - ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has captured the most detailed view yet of Mars's atmosphere, showing a fine layering of dust and ice particles that resembles a cosmic mille-feuille. The images reve
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 30, 2025 - With repeated strikes of a 10-pound (4.5-kilogram) sledgehammer, a team of NASA-supported researchers has demonstrated a low-tech but powerful method to locate caves that may one day provide shelter
Amherst MA (SPX) Sep 30, 2025 - Researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst are part of a team that has identified a unique mineral on Mars, described in Nature Communications. Named ferric hydroxysulfate, the mineral
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 26, 2025 - Recent tests suggest that swarms of spherical tumbleweed rovers could offer an affordable and efficient way to explore Mars. Experiments conducted in a wind tunnel and on natural terrain show that t
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 25, 2025 - While the ancient Martian climate is still debated, new research indicates that volcanic emissions of sulfur gases could have created a warmer atmosphere capable of sustaining life. The study, publi
Washington DC (UPI) Sep 23, 2025 - NASA officials say its Mars-bound ESCAPADE spacecraft is back in Florida and is being prepped for its scheduled launch this fall.
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 22, 2025 - A rare look inside the wintry north polar vortex of Mars has revealed that conditions are far colder than outside its boundary, and that the months of complete darkness allow ozone to accumulate in
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 19, 2025 - Planetary scientists report progress in predicting when the Martian night sky will glow with green aurora, building on new visible-light images captured by NASA's Perseverance rover. The rover
