The demand for a more sustainable and accessible fuel for spacecraft has prompted a research team, led coordinated by the University of Bologna, to adapt a fuel that is at once readily abundant, not only on Earth but throughout the cosmos, while at the same time being non-toxic to theread more
Although news of the presence of water on Mars is nothing new, the discovery of a massive amount of liquid water—enough to cover the planet’s surface in a mile-deep ocean—has been made by a team that used seismic data to map the interior of the Red Planet. Using data collected by theread more
A potential biosignature indicating the presence of ancient lifeforms has turned up in a rock on the surface of Mars, in the form of what may be traces of chemical reactions from the life processes of ancient microbes. Although the sample will need to be returned to Earth to confirmread more
There is the possibility that life on Earth may not have originated here, but rather travelled to our planet on meteorites after first coming into being on the surface of Mars, according to a new study of Martian meteorites that suggests that the now-arid surface of the Red Planet wasread more