On May 2, as sunlight crept over the Martian horizon, the Odyssey spacecraft captured Arsia Mons, a towering, long-extinct volcano, puncturing a glowing band of greenish haze in the planet’s upper ...

Arsia Mons, which dwarfs Earth's tallest volcanoes, and its two neighboring volcanoes are often surrounded by water ice ...

A remarkable image captured by ESA’s Mars Express orbiter has brought renewed attention to a complex and heavily eroded ...

The Mobile Chamber had opposed a partnership's bid to dismantle the former USS Enterprise in Mobile; company leading the work ...

China launched a spacecraft that promises to return samples from an asteroid near Mars and yield “groundbreaking discoveries and ...

The Tianwen-2 mission launched aboard a Long March 3B rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in Sichuan province at 1.31am local time in China (3.31am AEST), according to the China National ...

During the late stages of the last ice age, the Arabian Desert wasn't always the dry expanse you know today. In fact, recent geological and climate research has revealed a very different past—one ...

Andy Weir's bestselling story "The Martian" predicts that by 2035 NASA will have landed humans on Mars three times, perfected ...

Here are two new novels, both highly accomplished, which diverge so sharply that they produce an eerie effect of symmetry. Audition is a slightly wayward choice for the title of Katie Kitamura’s new ...

“600 acres of the Guana River Preserve—land that was set aside for conservation—was at risk of being lost to development," Rumrell said in a statement. “But I’m proud to say: that risk ...

Sealing the “Green Gardens” sample — collected by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover from a rock dubbed “Tablelands” along the rim of Jezero Crater on February 16, 2025 — presented an engineering ...

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