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BILLION YEARS AGO On Mars, this period is known as the Pre-Noachian era. Mars has just formed from dust and gas in the ...

If scientists are able to inspect it in person, and they find that Mars was indeed once alive with microbes, we would know ...

Moon dust is sharp, corrosive, and potentially fatal. NASA’s new electric force field shield is designed to blast it away.

Some places feel borrowed from elsewhere. Iceland is one of them. Walk across its lava fields, and the ground looks unfinished, cracked, dark, and still warm in places. Steam lifts from the earth ...

Far below the postcard beaches and turquoise shallows of Bermuda, scientists have mapped a colossal slab of rock that should not be there. The hidden feature, sitting deep under the Bermuda Triangle, ...

There is a place on Earth where rain is almost a stranger, yet life continues quietly and steadily. In northern Chile lies ...

54- “The Pacific is my home ocean; I knew it first, grew up on its shore, collected marine animals along the coast. I know ...

Olympus Mons on Mars is the tallest mountain in the solar system, towering nearly three times higher than Mount Everest.

Arcadia Planitia does not draw attention in the way Mars’s great canyons or volcanoes do. It sits quietly across the northern ...

On some Mars images, Olympus Mons does not look dramatic at first glance. It sits there quietly, a wide pale rise against rust coloured plains. No sha.

Scientists have known that Mars is rich in strange chemicals, especially chlorine-based compounds found by orbiters, rovers, ...