Mars
Falling Phobos will eventually put a ring around Mars
Posted in Science on 23rd Nov, 2015
by Alex Muller
Eventually, in 20 to 40 million years, the dust-coated pile of rubble could completely fall apart from all the stress.
Mars 2020 rover may have a little flying helper drone
Posted in Science on 21st Nov, 2015
by Alex Muller
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is designing a helicopter-like drone that could scope out the landscape ahead of the Mars 2020 rover.
NASA's chemical 'laptop' would help find life on other planets
Posted in Hardware on 18th Nov, 2015
by Alex Muller
NASA's newly tested Chemical Laptop is the first device built to detect amino acids and fatty acids (the telltale signs of life as we know it) on other worlds.
What is interplanetary dust and can it spread the ingredients of life?
Posted in Science on 17th Nov, 2015
by Alex Muller
NASA reported that a cloud of dust was surrounding Mars high above its atmosphere. They ruled out Mars itself and its moons Phobos and Deimos as the sources of the dust.
Mars atmosphere 'eroded by Sun activity'
Posted in Science on 6th Nov, 2015
by Alex Muller
Scientists think they are getting closer to explaining precisely how Mars lost much of its atmosphere.