In a nutshell NASA’s Curiosity rover discovered large deposits of siderite, a type of iron carbonate, in Gale Crater, ...

If future Mars colonizers want to survive without pressure suits, they’ll need to generate a denser atmosphere. One way to ...

One part of this plan would require increasing the planet’s atmospheric pressure, and one scientist suggests that capturing ...

In the coming decades, missions to explore Mars will determine whether the Red Planet is fit for human beings to […] ...

Scientists have pondered why Mars seemed to be missing sufficient carbonates indicative of its warm, wet past. Now, NASA’s ...

A NASA rover taking rock samples on Mars has uncovered a plentiful mineral that was invisible to orbiters studying the Red ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover discovered siderite in Gale Crater. This shows Mars had a partial carbon cycle, storing and releasing ...

Tutolo led a new study of rock samples collected by the Curiosity rover that might have answered this question. The mystery ...

In an experiment simulating harsh Martian conditions, including X-ray radiation, scientists discovered that certain lichens ...

To study Mars’s chemical and mineral makeup, the Curiosity rover drills one to 1.5 inches down into the subsurface, then ...