For years, Mars has sat in an awkward middle ground, too geologically quiet to look like Earth. At the same time, it is too ...
An artist's render of Mars. (Kevin M. Gill/Flickr/CC BY 2.0) For decades, our picture of Mars was of a dead desert world. Its ...
On Earth, garnet is best known as the fiery red January birthstone—popular in jewelry since the Bronze Age and valued highly ...
Scientists find huge ‘magma systems’ inside Mars - Findings suggest that more planets could be habitable than we thought, ...
The robotic mission will give researchers a first-ever look into the Red Planet’s interior and could help to understand the basic question of how planets are formed. Scientists have learned a lot ...
We know Mars to be many things: dusty, cold, and missing a global magnetic field. In a recent discovery that baffled scientists, a space weather phenomenon previously associated with powerful magnetic ...