Mars Science Laboratory Our How Things Work feature for November 2011 focuses on the landing of the Curiosity Mars Science Laboratory in August 2012. But that will be just the start of this most ...

Rocket Lab's concept, which did not make the cut, came in under the $4 billion mark and would mean samples returned from Mars ...

Mars just dropped a surprise golden nugget —literally. Curiosity accidentally cracked open an ordinary-looking rock, only to ...

A new study claims that a mineral found in Mars' dust called ferrihydrite, which forms in the presence of cool water, is ...

It’s been long thought that Mars shines red due to the rusted iron ... and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) with advanced laboratory experiments. Findings suggested that ...

A rock on Mars that may hold clues about ancient microbial life on the Red Planet continues to puzzle scientists.

Such major and arbitrary cuts to NASA’s budget would do very little to save money, but they will undercut and decimate one of ...

With new data coming in from Mars, scientists have a new theory about why the planet is red. What does this mean for whether ...

This new analysis combining spacecraft observations with some newly developed laboratory techniques ... still be debating just how Mars got so red. Laura is a science news writer, covering a ...

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