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
Did NASA’s experiment accidentally kill life on Mars?Life on Mars: An astrobiologist suggests that NASA's Viking missions in the 1970s may have inadvertently eliminated potential Martian life....
18 Nov, 2024, 04.12 PM IST
NASA recreates Mars’ strange ‘Spiders’ in lab. Here's all about the mysteryNASA scientists have recreated mysterious Martian "spiders" in a lab, replicating the formations first observed by the Mars Orbiter. These ...
20 Sep, 2024, 11.01 AM IST
Scientists propose warming up Mars by using heat-trapping 'glitter'Researchers suggested a new method to warm Mars by injecting engineered nanoparticles into its atmosphere, potentially increasing temperatu...
09 Aug, 2024, 06.47 PM IST
NASA to launch two helicopters to bring back Martian rocks to EarthThe helicopters will be modelled after NASA's successful mission Ingenuity, which has made 29 flights since arriving with Perseverance at M...
04 Aug, 2022, 05.37 PM IST
Liquid water on Mars may hold enough oxygen to support life: StudyAccording to researchers, the findings could inform future missions to Mars by providing better targets to rovers searching for signs of pa...
23 Oct, 2018, 02.01 PM IST
Red earth and pouring grain?Even Elon Musk reckons a human settlement on Mars will take at least half a century, so there’s plenty of time to experiment with what can ...
01 Oct, 2018, 11.19 PM IST
- Martian soil could be pressed into making strong bricks
Washington, April 28 (IANS) Experimenting with Mars-like soil, researchers have found that the Red Planet's soil could be turned into brick...
28 Apr, 2017, 03.25 PM IST
- New tools to help NASA research habitability on Mars
Washington, Sep 26 (IANS) Scientist have developed a set of five instruments that can potentially advance NASAs understanding of wind and w...
26 Sep, 2016, 12.15 PM IST
NASA's next Mars rover progresses towards 2020 launchTo reduce risk and provide cost savings, the 2020 rover will look much like its six-wheeled, one-tonne predecessor, Curiosity.
16 Jul, 2016, 12.32 PM IST
Potatoes to be grown on Earth under Martian conditionsThe experiment demonstrates that potato crops can be grown in the most inhospitable environments to save millions of lives.
22 Dec, 2015, 12.49 PM IST
The key to colonizing Mars could be tiny green microbesIn science fiction, we find humans harvesting fields of wheat under terraformed Martian skies and growing rows of potatoes inside climate-c...
23 Sep, 2015, 04.09 PM IST
NASA-funded company to produce oxygen on Mars using bacteriaThe organisms would use Mars' ample supply of regolith as fuel, and may even serve a dual purpose in removing nitrogen from the Martian soi...
14 May, 2015, 05.10 PM IST
Mars' surface could hold briny water: StudyBriny water may exist under certain conditions on the surface of Mars but it may not support life, data collected on the red planet by NASA...
05 May, 2015, 02.36 PM IST
Curiosity rover detects life-supporting nitrogen on MarsThe nitrogen was detected in the form of nitric oxide, and could be released from breakdown of nitrates during heating.
25 Mar, 2015, 02.54 PM IST
Nasa’s new plan: To make O2 on MarsThe Mars 2020 mission will be based on the design of Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity. The new rover will carry more sophisticated, ...
02 Aug, 2014, 11.24 AM IST
- NASA spacecraft starts digging after landing on Mars
NASA's Phoenix lander has been ordered to begin its long-awaited exploration of Mars' north pole region by clawing into the permafrost to s...
05 Jun, 2008, 06.31 AM IST