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NASA rover hears electric crackles inside Mars dust devils
Dec 04, 2025 (JPL)
On Mars, dust devils arise when sunlight warms the ground, heating the thin air just above it so that it rises and begins to rotate as cooler air rushes in at t...
Bacterial partnership offers pathway to produce Mars regolith bricks for future habitats
Dec 03, 2025 (SPX)
Mars once had a thicker atmosphere, but today the planet's surface is exposed to low pressure, strong temperature swings from around -90 C to 26 C, intense radi...
Mars Rover Uncovers Evidence of Ancient Wet Climate in Jezero Crater
Dec 03, 2025 (SPX)
Perseverance's SuperCam and Mastcam-Z instruments analyzed the kaolinite fragments, which range from pebbles to boulders. Researchers compared these samples to ...
NASA desert drone trials refine navigation software for future Mars explorers
Dec 03, 2025 (SPX)
At Death Valley National Park and in the nearby Mojave Desert, engineers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California flew three research drones...
Scientists trace ancient mega watersheds on Mars
Dec 03, 2025 (SPX)
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have now organized these fluvial features into large drainage systems, producing the first global inventory of ...
Martian dust devils found to generate electrical sparks
Nov 27, 2025 (SPX)
The SuperCam microphone, the first to operate on Mars, captured especially strong transient signals as two dust devils passed over the rover. Researchers at the...
ESCAPADE spacecraft capture first images while en route to Mars
Nov 26, 2025 (SPX)
The pair of self-portraits includes a visible-light photo and an infrared image, showing the panel's surface temperature distribution. The visible-light view hi...
NASA confirms support for delayed European Mars rover: ESA
Nov 26, 2025 (AFP)
The rover aims to be the first on the red planet capable of drilling up to two metres (6.5 feet) below the surface to search for extraterrestrial life. However,...
NASA Orbiter Shines New Light on Long-Running Martian Mystery
Nov 26, 2025 (SPX)
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has revisited and raised new questions about a mysterious feature buried beneath thousands of feet of ice at the Red Pl...
Second CHAPEA Crew Begins Extended Mars Habitat Mission at NASA Johnson
Nov 26, 2025 (SPX)
The crew will remain inside the CHAPEA facility, exiting only for Marswalk simulations, which occur within a Mars-like environment directly outside the habitat....
Destination: Mars. First Stop: Iceland?
Nov 21, 2025 (SPX)
In preparation, an international collaboration of scientists has started investigating sedimentary rock samples found in Iceland, a country whose terrain shares...
NASA twin spacecraft depart Earth orbit to begin Mars mission
Nov 14, 2025 (SPX)
The paired orbiters, engineered by Rocket Lab and overseen by UC Berkeley, mark the first Mars science effort to place two coordinated satellites into distinct ...
Ancient Martian groundwater may have prolonged habitability beyond previous estimates
Nov 13, 2025 (SPX)
A team led by Dimitra Atri from NYUAD's Space Exploration Laboratory examined data collected by NASA's Curiosity rover in Gale Crater, focusing on sedimentary s...
What a Martian ice age left behind
Nov 13, 2025 (ESA)
Earth isn't the only planet to go through ice ages. A handful have hit our home planet in the last 2.5 billion years, with the most recent - which peaked around...
Dust and Sand Movements Reshape Martian Slopes
Nov 11, 2025 (SPX)
Scientists report that slope streaks on Mars form when layers of fine dust suddenly slip downhill, typically in the absence of water. The streaks appear to be p...
NASA's ESCAPADE mission to Mars - twin UC Berkeley satellites dubbed Blue and Gold - will launch in early November
Nov 06, 2025 (SPX)
What they find will help scientists understand how and when Mars lost its atmosphere and provide key information about conditions on the planet that could affec...
Yeast demonstrates survival skills under Mars conditions
Oct 25, 2025 (SPX)
Using a High-Intensity Shock Tube for Astrochemistry, the team tested yeast cells against shock waves of Mach 5.6 and subjected them to 100 mM sodium perchlorat...
Are there living microbes on Mars? Check the ice
Oct 17, 2025 (SPX)
"Fifty million years is far greater than the expected age for some current surface ice deposits on Mars, which are often less than two million years old, meanin...
Blocks of dry ice carve gullies on Martian dunes through explosive sublimation
Oct 15, 2025 (SPX)
Roelofs replicated the process in a controlled "Mars chamber" at The Open University in Milton Keynes, which simulates the Red Planet's low pressure and extreme...
Yeast withstands Mars-like shocks and toxic salts in survival test
Oct 15, 2025 (SPX)
Led by molecular biologist Purusharth I. Rajyaguru, the research team tested the resilience of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, a model yeast species long used in biol...
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