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The largest-known piece of Mars to be found on Earth will be up for bid and could be sold for up to $4 million at auction.
The ancient Greek philosopher Anaxagoras (500-428 BC) was the first person to hypothesize that the seeds of life are present ...
Sotheby’s may be better known for Warhols and Picassos, but this week, the Upper East Side auction house is going full geek. Through July 15, the annual Geek Week exhibition returns, transforming the ...
Researchers focused on fluvial sinuous ridges, or inverted channels, winding through Noachis Terra, a region in Mars’ southern highlands. These features likely formed when river sediments solidified ...
The Curiosity rover has spent over a decade on Mars, uncovering astonishing discoveries and revealing the hidden history of ...
Theodore Roosevelt once said, “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” I thought of that line during a re-watch of The Martian. There’s a ...
BEIJING -- A team of Chinese geologists has created a Mars soil simulant that almost replicates Utopia Planitia soil, a ...
Strange cone-shaped rocks led scientists to the hidden remains of one of Earth’s oldest asteroid impacts. It could help us find fossil life on Mars.
If we're to land humans on Mars in the coming decades, we'll have to know what challenges await them when they get there. Enter M-MATISSE, a potential precursor to a crewed mission to the Red Planet.
If we're to land humans on Mars in the coming decades, we'll have to know what challenges await them when they get there.
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has learned to pull off daring 120-degree rolls that give its SHARAD radar ...