NASA has launched the Mars to Table Challenge, seeking Earth-independent food systems capable of sustaining astronauts on ...
Mars, long admired for its rusty hue and alien deserts, may play a far greater role in shaping life on Earth than once ...
Mars is about half Earth’s size and roughly a tenth its mass — not really the sort of planet you’d expect to leave ...
"Without Mars, Earth's orbit would be missing major climate cycles. What would humans and other animals even look like if ...
Research suggests that Mars may strongly influence these cycles. For example, Mars helps drive a 2.4‑million‑year cycle ...
Earth's climate has swung between ice ages and warmer periods for millions of years, driven by subtle changes in our planet's orbit and axial tilt. These variations, known as Milankovitch cycles, ...
For nearly a month, NASA has been scrambling to make contact with a spacecraft in orbit around Mars that abruptly fell silent.The space agency lost communication with the MAVEN probe (short for Mars ...