All evidence points to Mars having had a carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere billions of years ago, but insufficient carbonates in Martian soil challenge this theory. Now, a new study using data from ...

Experiments have shown that plants can grow surprisingly well in simulated Martian and lunar soil. The real issue isn’t a ...

Dirk Schulze-Makuch, an astrobiologist at Technical University Berlin, has put forward a striking theory suggesting that NASA ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Elon Musk might have his sights set on settling Mars, but recent experiments that utilized ...

University of Arizona engineers are still trying to correct a problem with one of the main science experiments on the Phoenix Mars Lander. Only a few particles of the clumpy Martian soil have made it ...

Two weeks ago, the world marveled when the Phoenix survived a 420 million-mile space journey and landed on Mars, right where it was supposed to. Now it's expected to analyze Martian soil to determine ...

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A project from the University of Central Florida's Planetary Sciences Group sought to create the best replica of Martian dirt yet, and it's selling the material for $20 per kilogram. Share on Facebook ...

This past week, NASA published a paper in Science Magazine that discusses a fairly major discovery made by the Curiosity Rover on the red planet: water exists in Martian soil. Specifically, the 1-ton ...

Mars may have once been a paradise with Earth-like oceans and balmy beaches that would have been ideal for harboring living organisms, according to a new study. An international team of researchers ...

You know how smug tourists like to talk about how climbing volcanoes in Hawaii is out of this world? Turns out they're sort of right. NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is finally starting to get some ...