Medicine & TechnologyA new study recently revealed that Martian moon Phobos 'is on a slow death spiral.' Still, it may hold some secrets about the formation of Mars.
NASA and the Canadian Space Agency are teaming up to give $500,000 to ideas of food production in space under their joint program, the "Deep Space Food Challenge."
Solar Orbiter has captured a brilliant view of Earth, Mars, and Venus in just a single frame. European Space Agency shared the stunning video on the website.
NASA's orbiter first discovered the Happy Face crater in 2011, and just a decade after, astronomers said that the smile has gotten much bigger due to thermal erosion.
NASA's InSight "mole" mission has come to an end. The historic heat probe instrument landed in Mars over 2 years ago. But NASA has called an end to the mission due the harsh innards on the surface of Mars making the spacecraft stuck and difficult to go forward.
The Perseverance rover, the core of the $2.7-billion Mars 2020 mission of NASA, is slated to land on February 18, kicking off a new Red Planet exploration era.
Scientists are trying to recreate Martian soil conditions on Earth to find a way of stimulating plant growth on the Red Planet for future manned missions.
Mars was thought of as a dead planet during the 1960s and 1970s but the Marsquakes and landslides observed in the later years have proven that it is still an active planet.