The Red Planet launches large bursts of plasma into space from its upper atmosphere, much like the sun’s coronal mass ...
The space agency is investing in the development of a propulsion system that uses nuclear power to create plasma bursts.
In our top stories this week, reporter Passant Rabie describes in in-development rocket engine that NASA could eventually use ...
Newfound rocks on Mars suggest the planet may have once sported an oxygen-rich atmosphere, making it more Earth-like and ...
A research team using the ChemCam instrument onboard NASA's Curiosity rover discovered higher-than-usual amounts of manganese ...
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has discovered rocky material that's riddled with an unusual amount of manganese, a mineral ...
The results suggest that the sediments were formed in a river, delta, or near the shoreline of an ancient, habitable lake on ...
The Curiosity Mars rover has detected intriguing chemical evidence, in the form of anomalous amounts of manganese oxide, ...
Ancient Mars may have been surprisingly similar to planet Earth, a NASA rover has revealed. Using the ChemCam instrument on ...
Newfound rocks on Mars suggest the planet may have once sported an oxygen-rich atmosphere, making it more Earth-like and hospitable to life than previously thought. A collection of rocks scattered ...
A collection of rocks scattered on an ancient shoreline on Mars might indicate that the Red Planet was once far more Earth-like than scientists previously thought. The rocks, discovered by NASA's ...