The Future of Humanity: Why 2026 Could Be the Year the Multi-Planet Dream Turned RealHumanity's dream of living on other worlds is becoming a structured plan. In 2026, key technologies for space living started coming togethe...
27 Feb, 2026, 02.40 PM IST
10 Mega Starship Concepts That Could Carry 1,000 People to MarsEstablishing a sustained human presence on Mars necessitates a significant evolution in transportation. Current research and engineering co...
25 Feb, 2026, 04.48 PM IST
Can Humans Really Survive on Mars? 6 Science-Backed AnswersMars presents significant environmental challenges, but research indicates these can be engineered around. Strategies for radiation shieldi...
25 Feb, 2026, 04.47 PM IST
Mars’ missing water quest sees an unexpected breakthrough, offering insights into the planet’s ancient climateScientists have long sought to explain why Mars, once rich in liquid water, became a dry desert. A new study reveals that intense, localize...
23 Feb, 2026, 09.04 PM IST
Human skull on Mars? What did NASA just discover on the red planetNASA's Perseverance rover found a skull-shaped rock on Mars in Jezero Crater. Scientists call it Skull Hill. It is likely a 'float rock' mo...
01 May, 2025, 01.08 PM IST
Mars could have conditions suitable for life, reveals new discoveryThis alternating pattern of wet and dry periods is believed to have created an environment conducive to the development of complex ancient ...
10 Aug, 2023, 01.20 AM IST
The Red Planet deep under: Potential life on Mars likely lived below the surfaceUnderground heat would have been possible 4.1 bn years ago or in the Noachian era on Mars.
03 Dec, 2020, 02.34 PM IST
Mars terraforming not possible with current technologiesScience fiction writers have long featured terraforming, the process of creating an Earth-like or habitable environment on another planet, ...
31 Jul, 2018, 01.19 PM IST
- Most of Mars' atmosphere was lost to space: NASA
Washington, March 31 (IANS) Solar wind and radiation were responsible for stripping the Martian atmosphere, transforming Mars from a planet...
31 Mar, 2017, 11.05 AM IST
Mars loses 10 times more hydrogen when closest to sunMAVEN has been tracking the hydrogen escape without interruption over the course of a Martian year, which lasts nearly two Earth years.
20 Oct, 2016, 07.04 PM IST
- NASA's MAVEN probe observes how water escapes from Mars
Washington, Oct 20 (IANS) After investigating the upper atmosphere of the Red Planet for a full Martian year, NASA's MAVEN mission has foun...
20 Oct, 2016, 05.01 PM IST
Strong solar winds may have stripped life on Mars: NASAMAVEN is the first mission devoted to understanding how the sun might have influenced atmospheric changes on the Red Planet.
06 Nov, 2015, 04.48 PM IST
Mars had ocean with more water than ArcticA primitive ocean on Mars held more water than Earth's Arctic Ocean but the Red Planet lost 87 per cent of that water to space, a new study...
08 Mar, 2015, 01.24 PM IST
ISRO's Mars Orbiter Mission: Our mangal sutra, and yes, it is rocket science!If the Indian probe can pin down methane again, it makes the case for organic life existing on Mars that much more likely.
25 Sep, 2014, 11.01 AM IST
NASA, Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) in talks to set up Joint Mars Working GroupBoth the missions of NASA & ISRO will arrive at Mars just in time to join the fleet of Mars-based spacecraft that could witness the effects...
11 Sep, 2014, 02.10 PM IST
NASA's Curiosity rover confirms origin of Martian meteoritesThese lighter and heavier forms, or isotopes, of argon exist naturally throughout the solar system.
17 Oct, 2013, 04.46 PM IST
- TN to bring out relief package for non-cauvery Delta regions
Tamil Nadu government today said it would soon come out with a drought relief package to also cover farmers of non-Cauvery delta regions.
21 Mar, 2013, 04.05 PM IST