A new study of Martian dust gives insights into the ancient Martian climate. The findings hint at a wetter world.
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Was there ever life on Mars? Is there life on Mars now? Did it originate there or here, on Earth? All possibilities are fascinating.
Yes, NASA’s Perseverance rover found organics on Mars. So did Curiosity. Unfortunately, that doesn’t mean anything in the search for life.
For now, our Solar System’s eight planets are all safe, and relatively stable. Billions of years from now, everything will be different.
The high pitches from the flute and the harp would reach your ears before the notes from the tuba and the cello.
Experts believe they could cut the time it takes a rocket to reach Mars by up to 25%, shaving about two months off the trip.
Researchers have discovered 830-million-year-old microbes living inside a salt rock on Earth. Could the same occur on Mars?
NASA’s Juno mission, in orbit around Jupiter, occasionally flies past its innermost large moon: Io. The volcanic activity is unbelievable.
Instead of worshipping Yahweh, the devotees were perhaps dedicated to Mars and Jupiter.
Until the Apollo missions, we had no idea how the moon got here, just a series of educated guesses. They rewrote the story of the moon’s origins.
Looking back on our planet’s early history offers a new (and less crazy) meaning for the idea of a “flat Earth.”
No planet enters retrograde more frequently than Mercury, which does so 3-4 times each year. Here’s the scientific explanation for why.
In the night sky for March of 2022, only stars and the Moon, not planets, will greet you. The real show, however, arrives just before dawn.
There’s an entire Universe out there. So, with all that space, all those planets, and all those chances at life, why do we all live here?
This oddball system of three stars might be our best chance at finding nearby life in the Universe.
Whether you call it 10 quintillion, 10 million trillion, or 10 billion billion, it’s a 1 followed by 19 zeroes.
Our research on a Martian meteorite provides new clues about early surface conditions on the red planet.
One book will gather all topics on the search for life in the Cosmos.
From astrobiology to geology, a Moon base could serve as a laboratory unlike anything on Earth.
The cycles of life all rely on the dynamism of the Earth’s crust.
“You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it.”
Water on Mars is key for human survival on the Red Planet, not just for drinking but for growing food and making fuel and oxygen.
Like Mars today, Venus used to be a sci-fi superstar. Recent discoveries could re-ignite our interest in Earth’s “evil twin.”
Since 1962, humanity has been sending messages into space with the intent to make contact with intelligent extraterrestrials. Are those efforts worth the risks?
The surface and atmosphere is colored by ferric oxides. Beneath a very thin layer, mere millimeters deep in places, it’s not red anymore.
Mercury, Venus, and Mars are all uni-plate planets, and may always have been. Here’s what’s known about why Earth, uniquely, has plate tectonics.
The first human that isn’t an Earthling could be in our lifetime.
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Space missions in 2022 will include massive rockets and asteroid collisions. This is also the year space tourism starts to hit its stride.
The first world that humans should inhabit beyond the Earth is the Moon, not Mars. Here’s why terraforming our lunar neighbor is so appealing.