When a meteorite smashed into Mars 11 million years ago, debris landed on Earth as meteorites, giving an unparalleled look at ...
Celestial Mystery Mysteries abound on the planet Mars — from the tantalizing traces of ancient riverbeds on its surface to ...
Using meteorites that were long ago chipped off the red planet around 11 million years ago and flung into space to eventually ...
“Martian meteorites are the only physical materials we have available from Mars,” said James Day from UC San Diego, who led ...
The International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) has developed a Declaration of Principles, a set of general guidelines for ...
Astronomers have long puzzled over the origins on Phobos and Demos, the red planet's strangely-shaped moons. Now they are ...
The conventional wisdom about Mars’ small and misshapen moons, Phobos and Deimos, is that they were either created like Earth ...
Meteorites from Mars are helping researchers better understand the geology of the Red Planet — and the formation of Earth.
Mars, a planet often associated with a lifeless, dusty expanse, holds a puzzling amount of organic matter on its surface.
Perhaps the greatest, mind-bending quirk of our universe is the inherent trouble with timekeeping: Seconds tick by ever so ...
The giant impact that formed the Moon may also have led to extrastrong mantle plumes that enabled the first subduction event, ...