Tag Archives: Mars

Washington, July 8 (ANI): A study has determined that snow and ice trapped inside dunes on Mars does not entirely stop their movement, a finding which indicates that other factors are limiting the dune movement. Planetary scientists have monitored some ... Read More »

London, July 6 (ANI): Scientists have come up with the first robotic grasshopper based on the spring mechanism the insect has to propel itself, which may help explore Mars’ rocky terrain. The Jollbot was masterminded by Rhodri Armour, who spent ... Read More »

London, July 4 (ANI): The NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin has said that humans should create a settlement on Mars to provide much-needed objectives to the younger generation. Aldrin, the second man to set his foot on the Moon, has claimed ... Read More »

Washington, July 1 (ANI): In a new research, scientists have found evidence that indicates the Martian climate was life-friendly more recently than thought. Matthew Balme, a research scientist with the Tucson-based Planetary Science Institute and a research fellow at the ... Read More »

London, June 30 (ANI): A new research led by a UK scientist has indicated that Mars had significantly warmer weather in its recent past than previously thought. Dr. Matthew Balme, from The Open University, made the new discovery by studying ... Read More »

London, June 5 (ANI): The rover Opportunity has found six new iron meteorites on Mars, which may reveal how much water they have come into contact with since they landed on the planet millions or billions of years ago. The ... Read More »

London, June 4 (ANI): Arnold Schwarzenegger-starrer thriller Total Recall is being remade, it has emerged. According to trade newspaper The Hollywood Reporter, Kurt Wimmer, who penned the 1999 version of The Thomas Crown Affair, is currently busy working on a ... Read More »

London, June 3 (ANI): Using phone cameras, scientists can one day hunt for Martian life, by looking for organic matter that could indicate life. According to a report in New Scientist, research with this type of technology is already underway ... Read More »

London, June 2 (ANI): A new study has determined that life on Earth is unlikely to have come from space viruses. Panspermia is the idea that life was seeded by extraterrestrial microbes in the form of hardy bacterial spores that ... Read More »

Washington, June 2 (ANI): A new study has suggested that large bombardments of meteorites approximately four billion years ago could have helped to make the early Earth and Mars more habitable for life by modifying their atmospheres. When a meteorite ... Read More »

Washington, May 29 (ANI): Arizona State University (ASU) researchers and scientists have created a new feature for Google Earth 5.0, which would enable anyone, anywhere, to recommend places on Mars to photograph. Google Earth 5.0 is the popular online application ... Read More »

Washington, May 22 (ANI): The instruments aboard the Rover Opportunity, which are studying the Victoria Crater on Mars, has revealed more evidence of the red planet’s windy, wet and wild past. According to Steve Squyres, Cornell professor of astronomy and ... Read More »

London, May 21 (ANI): A new study has suggested that a cold, wet Mars may have been just as hospitable to life as a warm one. According to a report in New Scientist, the study investigated what would happen to ... Read More »

London, May 14 (ANI): A new report by the US National Research Council has said that if NASA aims to bring Mars samples back to Earth, it should prepare for the possibility that the samples could include organisms that might ... Read More »

Washington, May 12 (ANI): In a new research, scientists suggest that a “supergiant” asteroid several times larger than the one that likely killed the dinosaurs struck Mars with such force that it shut down the planet’s magnetic field. Based on ... Read More »