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Largest piece of Mars on Earth sells for $5.3M in Sotheby's auction
Jul 17, 2025 (UPI)
Bidding for the 54-pound, reddish-brown object began at $2 million, according to ABC News, and it went to $4.3 million plus $1 million in fees and taxes. The or...
Chinese researchers craft high fidelity Mars soil simulant to support future missions
Jul 14, 2025 (SPX)
UPRS-1 mimics the mechanical, spectral, physical and chemical characteristics of Martian soil based on data from the Zhurong rover, which landed in Utopia Plani...
New Martian rock reveals clues about volcanic history on the Red Planet
Jul 14, 2025 (SPX)
The research, published in the first issue of the new planetary science journal Planet, was led by Dr. Jun-Feng Chen of the university's Research Center for Pla...
The Mars mission that could prep for a human landing
Jul 14, 2025 (SPX)
Enter M-MATISSE, a potential precursor to a crewed mission to the Red Planet which could use UK instrumentation being promoted at the Royal Astronomical Society...
Continuing the Quest for Clays
Jul 09, 2025 (JPL)
When a coring target could not be found at the previous outcrop, the Science Team decided to return to the "Main Topsail" locality. In a single drive to this ar...
Was Mars doomed to be a desert? Study proposes new explanation
Jul 09, 2025 (SPX)
Mars has canyons that were carved by rivers, so it was once warm enough for liquid water. How-and why-did it become it a barren desert today? A study led by Uni...
Bioplastic habitats could sustain algae growth for space colonization
Jul 09, 2025 (SPX)
The team, led by Robin Wordsworth, Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering, grew Dunaliella tertiolecta algae inside 3D-printed chambers made of poly...
China prepares for Mars sample return with HKU astrobiologist on mission team
Jul 07, 2025 (SPX)
As a core member of the Tianwen-3 science team and co-author of a recent perspective article in Nature Astronomy, Professor LI supports China's search for biosi...
Mars lost habitability due to its own climate self-limiting cycle
Jul 07, 2025 (SPX)
The findings are informed by recent data from NASA's Curiosity rover, which finally detected carbonate-rich rocks-critical clues that had eluded scientists for ...
Red, white and blue on the Red Planet
Jul 03, 2025 (UPI)
A plaque bearing the United States flag is on an aluminum plate at the base of the mast, or "head," of NASA's Perseverance rover on the Red Planet. An image of ...
Why is there no life on Mars? Rover finds a clue
Jul 02, 2025 (AFP)
A discovery made by a NASA rover has offered a clue for this mystery, new research said Wednesday, suggesting that while rivers once sporadically flowed on Mars...
European students complete immersive analog Mars mission in Portugal
Jul 02, 2025 (SPX)
Led by a consortium that includes the Austrian Space Forum (OeWF), COSPAR, NUCLIO, Ellinogermaniki Agogi (EA), and OLA - Observatorio do Lago Alqueva, the initi...
NASA Mars Orbiter Learns New Moves After Nearly 20 Years in Space
Jun 30, 2025 (JPL)
After nearly 20 years of operations, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is on a roll, performing a new maneuver to squeeze even more science out of the bu...
Growing Homes On Mars: TAMU Research Pioneers Autonomous Construction Using Synthetic Lichens
Jun 26, 2025 (SPX)
But don't start packing just yet. First, we must figure out how to build structures millions of miles from Earth. Sending rockets carrying massive payloads of c...
Perseverance reveals clay minerals and sets distance record in Martian exploration
Jun 26, 2025 (SPX)
Ken Farley, Perseverance's deputy project scientist at Caltech, described Kenmore as "a weird, uncooperative rock" that vibrated excessively and shed fragments ...
Researchers take one small step toward planning life on Mars
Jun 26, 2025 (SPX)
Erica Luzzi, a planetary geologist and postdoctoral researcher in the Mississippi Mineral Resources Institute, recently led a research effort that discovered in...
Thick Martian clays may have formed in stable ancient lakebeds
Jun 23, 2025 (SPX)
The study examined 150 clay deposits previously identified by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Lead author Rhianna Moore, formerly a postdoctoral fellow at U...
Volcanic discovery at Jezero Crater could reshape timeline of Mars
Jun 16, 2025 (SPX)
The findings appear in the journal Communications Earth and Environment under the title "Evidence for a composite volcano on the rim of Jezero crater on Mars." ...
NASA Mars Orbiter Captures Volcano Peeking Above Morning Cloud Tops
Jun 11, 2025 (JPL)
A new panorama from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter shows one of the Red Planet's biggest volcanoes, Arsia Mons, poking through a canopy of clouds just before ...
Renowned Mars expert says Trump-Musk axis risks dooming mission
Jun 06, 2025 (AFP)
In an interview, the 73-year-old founder of the Mars Society delivered a blistering critique, accusing the world's richest person of undermining the mission thr...
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