The idea of an ancient Martian ocean has fascinated scientists for decades. Now, groundbreaking research based on radar scans ...

Astronomers have made a remarkable discovery on Mars that could revolutionise our understanding of the red planet's history.

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

Tohoku University researchers are looking underfoot to uncover the mysterious past of Mars: Martian regoliths in the soil. Their water storage capabilities may help us understand the change in water ...

Vincent Chevrier, associate research professor at the University of Arkansas Center for Space and Planetary Sciences, is part of an international team of researchers arguing that Mars gets its reddish ...

The surface of the Red Planet is constantly exposed to cosmic rays, and the Martian soil is so reactive that it's hostile to any organic compounds. Gypsum from Algeria stood in for Martian sulfate ...

They then analyzed the spectra of the dust, in the same way that orbiting spacecraft analyze the Martian soil, in order to study its composition. “We were trying to create a replica martian dust ...

The study, led by Adomas Valantinas of Brown University and published in Nature Communications, has confirmed the real reason ...

Being a botanist, he figures out he can grow potatoes in the hab by fertilizing Martian soil with his own feces and moistening the soil with water generated by burning hydrazine, a flammable ...

Students chose to experiment with the Martian simulated soil to complete experiments growing crops. “We know that we can’t grow in Martian soil, so we need to find out the least amount of that ...

Mars expert Roger Wiens and his team, including the rover Perseverance, discovered fascinating rocks incorporating kaolinite ...