Mars once looked far more like Earth, with a thicker atmosphere and liquid water pooling on its surface, yet today it is a frozen desert where even a thin wisp of air struggles to hold on. NASA’s ...
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Wringing out clues that could change everything.
When the Perseverance rover arrived on Mars nearly five years ago, NASA officials thought the next American lander to take aim on the red planet would be taking shape by now. At the time, the leaders ...
NASA has set its sights on sending astronauts to Mars sooner than most people realize. The ambitious plans include preparing ...
SpaceX has pursued its founder’s dream of reaching Mars for decades, but now that Elon Musk has shifted the company’s focus to the Moon, another aerospace firm appears prepared to take the lead in the ...
For nearly a month, NASA has been scrambling to make contact with a spacecraft in orbit around Mars that abruptly fell silent. The space agency lost communication with the MAVEN probe (short for Mars ...