The findings, published in the open-access journal IMA Fungus, suggest that lichens may be able to survive and function on the surface of Mars. This challenges long-standing assumptions about the ...

But the rover has been exploring the red planet since 2021, and it’s been carefully amassing a rock collection that could change our understanding of Mars’ history, how it compares to our own ...

NASA’s Curiosity Rover has just made a stunning discovery on Mars — the largest organic molecules ever found on the planet! These long carbon chains, possibly linked to fatty acids (key ...

In his inaugural address on Jan. 20, Trump said the U.S. "will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the stars and stripes on the planet Mars." ...

THERE are lots of ideas on how humans can terraform Mars, and turn the dusty, radioactive Red Planet into something habitable. Scientists have suggested we start with Antarctic desert moss ...

Researchers bombarded lichens with a year's worth of Martian radiation in just 5 hours — and they survived, hinting that the extremophiles could potentially live on the Red Planet.

A six-wheeled robot wandering the rugged terrain of Mars recently came across two small tornadoes whipping around the planet's surface ... can also be seen in the background at left and center.

Average Surface Temperatures of All Planets: There are eight planets in the solar system: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, with Pluto now categorised as a dwarf ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover had been on Mars for almost a thousand days when it spotted the odd-looking boulder on March 11. But this rock, perched on the lower slopes of Witch Hazel Hill in ...

WELCOME to Mars - where the air is too thin to breathe and the surface temperature is too cold for unsheltered life. Yet the Red Planet has the benefit of a 24-hour day - about 37 minutes longer ...

A new study from planetary scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder sheds light on the origins of Mars’ planet-wide dust storms—powerful weather events capable of obscuring the entire sky in ...