mars

Having switched my major from geology to business, I’m still a sucker for all things USGS. The organization just turned to quantum technology to help with the next generation of geological challenges, establishing a Cooperative Research and…

According to a new study published in Nature Synthesis, a robot chemist powered by AI could solve the challenge of delivering oxygen to humans on Mars before humans could. The researchers found that an AI robot could solve how to cook up…

Launching Oct. 13 with the Psyche mission, NASA’s pioneering Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) will be the first demonstration of laser, or optical, communications from as far away as Mars. DSOC will be used to test key technologies…

NASA's InSight mission has ended after more than four years of collecting unique science on Mars. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California eventually could no longer contact NASA's InSight Mars lander. NASA had…

The Webb Space Telescope returned its first images of Mars. The data comes from the telescope’s infrared instruments and provides scientists with information about Mars’ surface and atmospheric composition. Using the Near-Infrared…

The Mars Perseverance Rover has been probing Mars' 30-mile-wide Jezero crater. In the journal Science Advances, a research team's data reveals that rock layers beneath the crater's floor, observed by the rover's ground-penetrating radar,…

Researchers have pinpointed the exact home of the oldest and most famous Martian meteorite for the first time. Using a multidisciplinary approach, including a machine learning algorithm, the research - published today in Nature…

NASA's Perseverance mission is taking the first-ever recordings of the soundscape on Mars. Perseverance recorded the first sounds from Mars on February 19, 2021, the day after its arrival. The result? Mars is quiet, and natural sound…

In a research paper recently published in Space: Science & Technology, Qi Li from Beijing Institute of Spacecraft System Engineering studied aerodynamic characteristics of two types of Mars Ascent Vehicles (MAV). Those with slender…

Here, Samir Jaber, engineering content writer at materials search engine Matmatch, examines how materials testing could make or break humanity’s future on Mars.