After kindly asking a group of Canadian miners for a sample of some water they'd struck, a team of scientists who had been investigating similar finds discovered that the fluid they were looking at may have been sealed up for 1.5 billion years. Read More >>
Featured comment by zerobob:
"This is awesome news. I'm sure the key to finding out what life is is from sources like this. I'm surprised we haven't found it yet.
There had to b..." More »
It's going to take more than a Swiffer to deal with this situation. Researchers and public health experts at the Humans 2 Mars Summit (H2M) grappled with the question of how to deal with Martian dust if a manned mission to Mars could actually get off the ground by 2030. Read More >>
NASA's had Mars on the brain for many, many years, way before it was drawing massive male members in the martian sand. Ever since it sent astronauts to the Moon, NASA's had its sights aimed at the Red Planet. These amazing retro images dug up from the archives show just how NASA thought Mars would be. Read More >>
Apparently this was an accident, but really? Someone's obviously got a sense of humour at NASA's rover control (or access to Photoshop?). Poor Opportunity, just going about its own business while some pecker takes advantage of its innocent wanderings. It's bad enough it got replaced by Curiosity and left on Mars to die, but this? Maybe it's just Opportunity getting its own back. [NASA via Reddit via HuffPo] Read More >>
Featured comment by The_Alpha_Gamer:
"Nasa makes a tiretrack cock, everyone loves it.
Jeremy Clarkson makes a tiretrack cock, everyone complains.
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This ingenious website made by David Paliwoda shows how far Mars is from Earth in a metric all us Internet lovers understand: pixels. If Earth was a 100 pixels wide, how far would Mars be? To start off, the moon would be 3000 pixels away (and 27 pixels wide). Mars? Read More >>
Featured comment by Fynolt:
"It's more of a PC website. From a computer there are arrows that automatically scroll down for you.
and it quotes at a speed of so many pixels per ..." More »
Now that nuclear-thermal rockets are becoming a reality, we may very well be shipping off the first human pioneers to Mars (both safely and efficiently) in the not-too-distant future. This, of course, leaves the question of exactly who will become the first generation of Martian-Earthlings. Read More >>
Featured comment by warriorscot:
"More to do with the lowered atmospheric friction effects and more sites that have high altitude. Mars has a very different terrain and atmospheric con..." More »
The red planet is an alien world, and though it may have once held life, it's certainly no Earth. But that's to a recent, mammoth panorama shot by Curiosity, we can get a glimpse of what it would be life if one of Mars' mountains was transplanted here to ol' Terra. Read More >>
After analysing rock samples collected by the Curiosity Rover, NASA has made an exciting discovery: Conditions on a newly discovered grey (instead of red) part of Mars show it had conditions that were "once were favourable for life." It's an incredible breakthrough. Read More >>
Featured comment by Pedantic Otter:
"It's only a matter of time until we get a manned mission there...and then the real truth will come out...the truth of the former civilisation that blo..." More »
Created by Czech designer Lukas Vojir, this animation is a retro-futuristic short advert for a make-believe life on Mars. The style of the animation is wonderful, I just love how everything unfolds on the geometrically shaped red planet; the world is imaginative and perfectly rooted in our past thought of what the future would look like. [Lukas Vojir via Laughing Squid] Read More >>
Featured comment by Gaz:
"Its retro-futuristic, that's what they thought it would look like in the 60/70's, I was half expecting to see everyone flying around in Jetsons style ..." More »
There are all kinds of dangers on a trip to Mars. Muscle atrophy, cramped quarters, social/isolation stress, being in space. Take your pick. One of the biggest though, is being exposed to all manner of radiation and cosmic rays without an o-zone layer to keep you safe. The solution? An O-zone layer of poop. Basically. Read More >>
When you first think of the ideal candidates to make it through a gruelling 500+ day, 112 million km round trip to Mars, you don't exactly picture an old and crotchety married couple, but apparently that's just what's needed. The Mars Project wants a "tested" couple that could stand being so damn close to each other for over a year in a tiny box; I can kind of see their point. Read More >>
Good news for anyone who's stared in envy as NASA sends rover after rover to explore and study Mars. You no longer need countless millions and a team of rocket scientists to perform your own experiments on the red planet. For just £22-odd ThinkGeek will sell you your very own shard of our celestial neighbour. Read More >>
Since Curiosity has landed on Mars, it's been roving around finding all manner of...curiosities. Today, it's pulled off an intergalactic first and drilled 2.5 inches deep into the red planet's bedrock to obtain a sample. No one—no robot, as ever managed to pull that off before. Read More >>
The Mars Curiosity Rover has been busy snapping photos (selfies too) of Mars and found something... strange. A small, shiny, metal-looking "protuberance" sticking out from the red planet. Is it some secret lever to open up a world where Martians exist? Or some random space junk? We don't know. Read More >>
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