Terraforming is the theoretical process of transforming a planet or moon to make it habitable for humans and other Earth-like life. The concept involves altering an alien world's atmosphere, ...

In a blog post, the ESA said that the ExoMars’ Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) mission was able to detect the green Martian glow, which scientists have known about for some time but have only ever seen in the ...

On Earth, glowing oxygen is produced during polar auroras when energetic electrons from interplanetary space hit the upper atmosphere. This oxygen-driven emission of light gives polar auroras their ...

Scientists now believe that they have the tools to predict an aurora’s green glow in the night sky above Mars. Today in Helsinki, Finland, planetary scientist Elise Wright Knutsen of the University of ...

Mars may be known as the red planet, but a European spacecraft found oxygen that is causing a green glow in the planet's atmosphere, according to a new study. On Earth, this occurs in the form of ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has made yet another unusual discovery on Mars, spotting greenish spots inside a rock. The mysterious discovery was made by the rover's SHERLOC WATSON camera that took a ...

Nasa has found shocking “green spots” on Mars. On Earth, those spots can be a mark of the activity of microbes. Nasa cautioned that there is nothing to indicate the same is happening on Mars – but ...

Last week, the Trump administration released a presidential budget request that would cancel almost all NASA science missions in order to focus on putting humans on Mars. It's mainly a showy, ...

For the first time ever, a layer of glowing, green oxygen has been found in the atmosphere of the red planet, Mars. It's a glow that astronauts aboard the International Space Station sometimes see ...

Scientists just observed Mars' eerie green nightglow in the visible light spectrum for the very first time. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

tools from Green Hills Software. Both the “Opportunity” rover, launched July 7, and the “Spirit” rover, launched June 10, are being directed and controlled by software programs and systems written ...