"The experiments performed by NASA's Viking landers may have accidentally killed Martian life by applying too much water," ...
A zircon crystal from a Martian meteorite unlocks secrets of a water-rich, dynamic Mars 4.45 billion years ago.
Following the 1990s discovery that Mars had once been a watery oasis in the solar system’s habitable zone, NASA devised a ...
On September 29, 2013, SpaceX performed the first supersonic retropropulsion (SRP) maneuver to decelerate the reentry of the ...
NASA plans to probe a unique asteroid 2.2 billion miles away in order to learn more about the cores of planets, but it could ...
However, for years, scientists have argued that the Viking's experimental techniques might’ve killed hygroscopic microbes ...
Back in 2007, I talked with Rob Manning, engineer extraordinaire at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and he told me something shocking. Even though he had successfully led the entry, descent, and ...
Firming up plans to go to Mars would be fine, so long as it is not done at the expense of returning to the moon.