Strange new images of Mars suggest that aliens could be building towers on the planet’s surface Since the 1970s, scientists and enthusiasts have discovered a variety of objects on the surface of Mars. Giovanni Schiaparelli, an Italian astronomer, announced the … Read More
Just four years ago, perhaps the most inspiring start of modern space rocket launches took place. A start by Elon Musk’s most progressive private space company, SpaceX, which made millions of people dream again. This was a start-up performance: The … Read More
Phobos, it seems, will not live long in the Universe — at least not on a large cosmic timescale. Astronomers have long suspected that Phobos, the larger and closer of Mars’ two moons, is slowly spiraling inward to eventual destruction. … Read More
NASA’s Curiosity rover discovered some intriguing organic compounds on Mars that could be signs of ancient Mars life, but testing that hypothesis will take a lot more work. Researchers report in a new study that some of the powdered rock … Read More
Valles Marineris, the largest canyon in the Solar System, deeply marks the surface of Mars; a tectonic crack widened by erosion and marked by nearby channels potentially carved by water. It turns out that some of that water might still … Read More
With bugs, algae and other resource-efficient foods we could feed one million people on Mars within a century of arriving there. Scientists even invented a martian diet. In the science fiction novel and film The Martian, a stranded astronaut survives … Read More