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Why does NASA's Perseverance rover keep taking pictures of this maze on Mars?

NASA's Perseverance rover regularly images a Sherlock Holmes–themed maze to calibrate its chemical-hunting SHERLOC instrument.

Space · Jun 6, 2025

Venus may be geologically 'alive' after all, reanalysis of 30-year-old NASA data reveals

New research strengthens the case that Venus, long considered a geologically stagnant world, may be more Earth-like in its internal dynamics than once believed.

LiveScience · May 20, 2025

You think you know the moon? NASA scientists say think again

A new technique using data gathered by a spacecraft has helped peer back billions of years

The Independent UK · May 14, 2025

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Perseverance rover spots peculiar 'spider egg' rock on Mars — and scientists have no idea how it got there

On March 11, NASA's Perseverance Mars rover spotted a mysterious rock made of hundreds of tiny spheres that resemble spider eggs. Studying its formation could help us look for fossilized remains of microbial life on Mars.

LiveScience · Mar 29, 2025

Nasa’s Curiosity rover has found the longest chain carbon molecules yet on Mars. It’s a significant finding in the search for alien life

Nasa’s Curiosity Mars rover has detected the largest organic (carbon-containing) molecules ever found on the red planet. The discovery is one of the most significant findings in the search for evidence of past life on Mars. This is because, on Earth at least, relatively complex, long-chain carbon molecules are involved…

The Conversation · Mar 28, 2025

Explore Mars with an archive of NASA’s best-ever images in a new Taschen book

'Mars. Photographs from the NASA Archive' is a journey through six decades of discovery

Digital Camera World · Mar 6, 2025

NASA’s new telescope will create the ‘most colourful’ map of the cosmos ever made

NASA will soon launch a new telescope which it says will create the “most colourful” map of the cosmos ever made.

The Conversation · Feb 23, 2025

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20 years after crashing in the Utah desert, NASA's Genesis mission is still teaching us about solar wind

Despite crashing in the Utah desert in 2004, NASA's Genesis mission is still helping scientists study the effects of solar wind.

Space · Jan 19, 2025

Springtime on Mars brings frost avalanches, gas geysers and explosions (photos)

It’s time to ring in the Martian New Year with a variety of strange sights on the planet’s Northern Hemisphere.

Space · Jan 6, 2025

10 amazing things we found on Mars in 2024, from hundreds of 'spiders' to a 'Martian dog'

From arachnid-like formations and mysterious blobs to an underground ocean and a giant volcano, here are our 10 favorite things scientists discovered on Mars this year.

LiveScience · Dec 31, 2024

Coolest space missions coming in 2025

From a death swirl into Jupiter to "Ghost Riders in the Sky," here are some of the most exciting space missions coming in 2025.

LiveScience · Dec 30, 2024

NASA's Mars exploration plans need 'paradigm shifts' to succeed, report finds

NASA has released a new document that highlights planned programmatic paradigm shifts in Mars exploration over the next 20 years.

Space · Dec 13, 2024

12 strange reasons humans haven't found alien life yet

Scientists have been searching for evidence of extraterrestrial life for decades. So, where are all the aliens? Here are 12 intriguing theories ...

LiveScience · Dec 2, 2024

NASA tests cellphone-sized underwater robots for future ocean world missions (video)

Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory recently tested prototypes of miniature, self-propelled robots designed to explore the hidden oceans of distant moons like Europa, Jupiter's icy moon.

Space · Nov 24, 2024

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The Independent UK · Nov 18, 2024

NASA releases stunning images from Mars rover as it searches for evidence life could have existed

NASA scientists are hoping to understand the history of where they found the rocks — and for evidence of ancient microbial life

The Conversation · Nov 4, 2024

How can Jupiter have no surface? A dive into a planet so big, it could swallow 1,000 Earths

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected].

Space · Oct 29, 2024

NASA's Perseverance rover gets stunning view of big Mars crater from slippery slope (video, photos)

NASA's Perseverance rover took a break from its Mars mountaineering expedition recently to survey its old stomping grounds.

Space · Oct 17, 2024

Alien life could lurk on Mars beneath protective ice, study suggests

'Photosynthetic habitable zones' could exist beneath radiation-filtering ice on Mars, offering scientists another region in which to hunt for alien life.

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LiveScience · Oct 8, 2024

32 things on Mars that look like they shouldn't be there

The more scientists study the Red Planet, the more they find unusual objects and patterns scattered across Mars' surface. Here are some of the most baffling.

Space · Sep 18, 2024

NASA scientists solve mystery of curious 'spiders' on Mars

Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have recreated spider-like araneiform terrain, a geologic formation found on Mars, in a lab on Earth.

Space · Jul 28, 2024

10 weird water worlds in the solar system and beyond

Planetary scientists have been searching the cosmos for liquid water. Here are the most promising water worlds in the solar system and beyond.

Space · May 15, 2024

How NASA's Ingenuity helicopter opened the Mars skies to exploration

The Ingenuity Mars helicopter's flying days may be over, but its influence will be felt far into the future.

LiveScience · May 12, 2024

32 strange places scientists are looking for aliens

From planets and moons in our solar system to dying stars and parallel universes, here are some of the far-out places scientists are searching for alien life.

Space · Apr 13, 2023

NASA sets sights on a next-generation Mars helicopter to return Red Planet samples

Work is now underway to shape a new Mars helicopter design following the groundbreaking flights of NASA's robotic Ingenuity rotorcraft.

Space · Jan 20, 2022

The 10 most Earth-like exoplanets

Scientists have found more than 5,000 exoplanets since the first such world was confirmed orbiting a sunlike star in 1995. We explore the ones most similar to Earth.

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