NASA's latest mission to Mars has uncovered the origins of fast-moving streams of particles high above the planet, flowing against the solar wind.Read More »Planetary Sciences
Massive meteorites likely slammed into a Martian ocean billions of years ago, unleashing tsunami waves up to 120 meters tall, a close study of a region of the Red Planet's terrain has found.Read More »Planetary Sciences
Finding out whether just a few or many of this newfound type of rocky object roam deep space should help scientists sort among contrasting scenarios of the solar system's infancy.Read More »Space Science & Space Physics
The minerals identified by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter provide more evidence that the planet may have once been habitable.Read More »Climate Change
Scientists explore how interactions between a rocky planet's climate, mantle, and core can affect its evolution and determine whether it could sustain life.Read More »Planetary Sciences
