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Inside Mars’s Jezero Crater, once a lake and river delta, NASA’s Perseverance rover found complex carbon molecules built from the same four elements as all life on Earth — yet no one can yet say whether biology or ordinary chemistry made them.

NASA's Perseverance rover has found complex, ring-shaped carbon molecules sealed inside rocks in Mars's Jezero Crater, a basin that billions of years ago held...

Harrison KassJuly 27, 2026

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In July 2028 NASA launches a car-sized, 1,000-pound nuclear drone toward Saturn’s moon Titan, a six-year, $3.35 billion trip to a world where the air is four times denser than Earth’s, gravity is one-seventh as strong, and flying is the easy part.

NASA is about to try something it has never attempted: instead of another six-wheeled rover, it will fly a car-sized, plutonium-powered drone across the...

Harrison KassJuly 24, 2026

Psyche Asteroid Artist's Concept NASA Photo

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NASA’s Psyche Spacecraft Passed Within 2,864 Miles of Mars, Gained 1,000 MPH Without Using Onboard Propellant, and Is Now Headed for a Metal World That May Be an Early Planet’s Exposed Core

On May 15, 2026, NASA's Psyche spacecraft skimmed past Mars and came away a thousand miles per hour faster without burning a drop of...

Harry J. KazianisJuly 12, 2026

This composite image, from NASA's Galileo and Mars Global Survey orbiters, of Earth and Mars was created to allow viewers to gain a better understanding of the relative sizes of the two planets.

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Mars once had rivers, lakes, and possibly oceans, and it lost all of them for one reason — its molten core cooled, its magnetic field died, and the solar wind stripped the planet’s air into space.

Mars wasn't always frozen and barren. Billions of years ago it had flowing rivers, standing lakes, and possibly oceans. It lost all of it...

Harrison KassJuly 7, 2026

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At 70,000 Feet, Olympus Mons on Mars Stands Two and a Half Times Taller Than Mount Everest. It Is the Largest Volcano in the Solar System, and It May Not Be Extinct

A person standing on the largest volcano in the solar system would never know it. Olympus Mons rises 70,000 feet over Mars on slopes...

Harry J. KazianisJuly 5, 2026

This artistic impression depicts our Solar System neighbour Venus, where scientists have confirmed the detection of phosphine molecules. The molecules were detected in the Venusian high clouds in data from the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, in which ESO is a partner. Astronomers have speculated for decades that life could exist in Venus’s high clouds. The detection of phosphine could point to such extra-terrestrial “aerial” life.

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Terraforming Venus means removing 90 Earth atmospheres of carbon dioxide, cooling a planet that melts lead, and importing an ocean — the newest NASA idea skips all of it

Venus crushes, roasts, and corrodes anything that touches it, and it has almost no water. But fifty kilometers up, the pressure matches Earth's —...

Harry J. KazianisJuly 5, 2026

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NASA’s 1997 return to Mars came down to one wild idea: wrap the spacecraft in airbags and bounce it across the surface, then unfold to release Sojourner, the first Mars rover.

If you've seen the 2015 film The Martian, you've already met NASA's Mars Pathfinder mission: it's the antique 1997 lander Matt Damon's stranded astronaut...

Brandon WeichertJuly 1, 2026

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The Soviets Sent a Spacecraft to a Moon of Mars. One Wrong Command From Earth Killed It Forever

In 1988 the Soviet Union launched two ambitious spacecraft toward Phobos, a tiny moon of Mars, carrying what would have been the first robot...

Brandon WeichertJune 28, 2026

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Britain’s Mars Lander Was Declared a Failure for 11 Years: Then NASA Found It Sitting Upright on Mars

On Christmas Day 2003, Britain's Beagle 2 reached Mars and went silent. For more than a decade it was written off as destroyed. Then...

Brandon WeichertJune 26, 2026

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On March 12, 1974 a Soviet probe named Mars 6 fell through the Martian atmosphere at 12,500-mph exactly as designed, radioing home the first direct measurements ever made inside another planet’s air — and then, at the precise moment it should have touched down, the signal died, undone not by the landing but by transistors that had quietly decayed during seven months in deep space.

Mars 6 is one of the strangest missions of the Cold War space race. On March 12, 1974, the Soviet lander entered the Martian...

Harrison KassJune 26, 2026

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Inside Mars’s Jezero Crater, once a lake and river delta, NASA’s Perseverance rover found complex carbon molecules built from the same four elements as all life on Earth — yet no one can yet say whether biology or ordinary chemistry made them.

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In July 2028 NASA launches a car-sized, 1,000-pound nuclear drone toward Saturn’s moon Titan, a six-year, $3.35 billion trip to a world where the air is four times denser than Earth’s, gravity is one-seventh as strong, and flying is the easy part.

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NASA’s Psyche Spacecraft Passed Within 2,864 Miles of Mars, Gained 1,000 MPH Without Using Onboard Propellant, and Is Now Headed for a Metal World That May Be an Early Planet’s Exposed Core

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Mars once had rivers, lakes, and possibly oceans, and it lost all of them for one reason — its molten core cooled, its magnetic field died, and the solar wind stripped the planet’s air into space.

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At 70,000 Feet, Olympus Mons on Mars Stands Two and a Half Times Taller Than Mount Everest. It Is the Largest Volcano in the Solar System, and It May Not Be Extinct

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Terraforming Venus means removing 90 Earth atmospheres of carbon dioxide, cooling a planet that melts lead, and importing an ocean — the newest NASA idea skips all of it

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NASA’s 1997 return to Mars came down to one wild idea: wrap the spacecraft in airbags and bounce it across the surface, then unfold to release Sojourner, the first Mars rover.

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The Soviets Sent a Spacecraft to a Moon of Mars. One Wrong Command From Earth Killed It Forever

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Britain’s Mars Lander Was Declared a Failure for 11 Years: Then NASA Found It Sitting Upright on Mars

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