Mysterious Mars mounds may bolster case for ancient Red Planet ocean
Buttes and mesas in Mars’ Chryse Planitia contain clay minerals made from liquid water interacting with the rock nearly 4 billion years ago.
Buttes and mesas in Mars’ Chryse Planitia contain clay minerals made from liquid water interacting with the rock nearly 4 billion years ago.
On Episode 145 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik meet the authors of a new book about spaceflight called “Star Bound: A Beginner’s Guide to the…
NASA plans to fly two rockets through active auroras and study the unique ribbons of light that dance across the Alaskan night sky.
Spacecraft powered by electric propulsion could soon be better protected against their own exhaust, thanks to new supercomputer simulations.
If parallel universes exist, can we access them? Let’s explore the possibility.
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Blue Origin’s next suborbital spaceflight will be a long-awaited demonstration of New Shepard’s ability to generate lunar gravity rather than microgravity. The post New Shepard flight to demonstrate lunar gravity…
With winds blowing at 20,500 mph, “the planet has complex weather patterns just like Earth and other planets of our own system,” scientists said.
Even with all we’ve learned about Mars in recent decades, the planet is still mysterious. Most of the mystery revolves around life and whether the planet ever supported any. But…
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, previously known as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), will be the first observatory of its kind. Jointly funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF)…