The more scientists study the Red Planet, the more they find unusual objects and patterns scattered across Mars' surface.

My hope and passion is to assist in designing the nuclear thermal propulsion engine that will take a crewed mission to Mars. Conventional chemical propulsion systems use a chemical reaction ...

He described it as a “nozzle anomaly” that did not involve the booster casing or fuel grain and was compensated for by the booster. “Yes, it looks dramatic, like all things on a rocket ...

Support us to deliver journalism without an agenda. When Mars lost its atmosphere billions of years ago, it transformed from a planet that could have supported life into a cold desert world.

Amid the mundane pebbly terrain of Mars' surface, NASA's Perseverance rover recently spotted something remarkable: a strange, striped object the agency is now calling the "zebra rock ...

Researchers from MIT suggest that Mars’ once thick atmosphere may be trapped within the planet’s vast clay deposits, potentially storing significant amounts of carbon dioxide as methane. This ...

Kramer said the surplus pieces from Titan’s second hull had “several anomalies within the composite and the adhesive joints, including waviness, wrinkles, porosity and voids.” Bulges in the ...

Don Kramer testified during the U.S. Coast Guard's hearing on the implosion. A piece of the Titan's carbon-fiber hull recovered after the submersible's deadly catastrophic implosion showed ...

Where exactly did Mars' atmosphere go? This question has been a central mystery of Mars' 4.6-billion-year history. For two MIT geologists, the answer may lie in the planet's clay. In a paper ...

New research suggests the atmosphere of Mars may be hiding in plain sight, having been absorbed by minerals in the Red Planet's clays. If Mars' envelope of gas did "go to ground" over 3 billion ...

NASA's Perseverance rover found an odd zebra-striped rock while exploring Jezero Crater on Mars in September 2024. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / ASU On Mars, some 120 million miles away in space ...

On December 8, 1990, the NASA Galileo spacecraft experienced what has been dubbed a "flyby anomaly" as it flew past the Earth on its way to Jupiter and its moons. The anomaly, seen in several ...