The color pops up almost everywhere the Perseverance rover has looked—and could hold clues to the planet’s potential for ancient life.

Aside from ensuring the survival of the human species.

A spacecraft orbiting Mars has made the unexpected discovery of water in Mars' Grand Canyon, otherwise known as Valles Marineris.

Mars has its own version of the Grand Canyon, and scientists have learned this dramatic feature is home to "significant amounts of water" after a discovery made by an orbiter circling the red planet, according to the European Space Agency.

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has found life's building blocks on the Red Planet. Perseverance has identified carbon-containing organic chemicals in some of the rocks it has examined on the floor of Mars' Jezero Crater, mission team members announced on Wednesday (Dec. 15).

Everything appeared to go well, but team members are still waiting to get more data.

There’s a new plan could make life on Mars more of a possibility. The plan is built around the idea of giving Mars an artificial magnetosphere. The planet currently lacks a strong magnetic field and creating one could be the only option to help make life on Mars a stronger possibility. Of course, there’s a … The post Scientists came up with a crazy plan to make Mars habitable appeared first on BGR.

1971 was a crummy year for the Soviet Mars program. Of the four robotic spacecraft the USSR sent toward the Red Planet that year, one never made it out of Earth orbit, two were stymied by Martian dust storms, and another crashed into Mars like a speeding bullet. But the Mars 3 lander had better luck. Somewhat.

When Cassandra Klos was growing up in rural New Hampshire, it was easy to see the stars. She traced the constellations with her finger and imagined how it would feel to travel among them. As a college art student, she launched a photo project about Betty and Barney Hill, a New Hampshire couple who claimed to have been abducted by aliens.

Mars' winds create enough noise to see what's underneath the InSight lander.

Video footage from NASA's Perseverance Mars rover of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter's 13th flight on Sept. 4 provides the most detailed look yet of the rotorcraft in action.

NASA's Perseverance rover has socked away another Martian sample to send home to Earth. The car-sized Perseverance rover drilled a core sample on Monday (Nov. 15), filling a titanium tube with Red Planet rock for the third time ever.

Research and architecture studio AI Space Factory has designed a 3D-printed house for the surface of Mars – and it looks like a beehive. Dubbed the Marsha Project, the vertical dwelling was dreamt up for NASA’s 3D Printed Habitat Challenge, and has been endorsed by the agency.

There are lots of potential uses for a Mars colony. It could be a research outpost, mining colony, or even a possible second home if something happens to go drastically wrong on our first one. But it could also be a potential source of what is sure to be one of the most valuable elements in the space economy—hydrogen.

The car-sized robot, and NASA's other Mars craft, had to stand down recently because the Red Planet went behind the sun. NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has emerged from its first "solar conjunction" blackout and gotten back to work on the Red Planet. It's even phoned home with its first Mars photos since reawakening.

The fully virtual meeting starts Thursday, Oct. 14, and is free of charge.

The experiment in Israel is meant to help scientists learn how to avoid mistakes that could endanger astronauts during a Mars mission.

"Our goal is clear: To accelerate the development of innovation."

"We're definitely in the right place." There's an air of relief in the science team running the American space agency's (Nasa) Perseverance rover on Mars. The researchers are sure now they've sent the robot to a location that provides the best possible opportunity to find signs of ancient life.

Images from Nasa's Perseverance rover show it's in a great place to find traces of ancient microbes.