Mars

A ‘parade of planets’ will appear in the night sky TOMORROW – here’s how you can see the six distant worlds align

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Just before dawn from May 31 to June 3, a parade of six planets from our solar system will come into alignment ...

Astronomers Aim To Look For Terraformed ‘Snowball’ Earths

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Illustration of the Earth, with the continents in their present form, but with the planet completely … [+] iced over. The snowball ...

NASA’s Curiosity Rover Uncovers Signs of an Earth-Like Environment on Ancient Mars

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

NASA’s Curiosity rover continues to search for signs that Mars’ Gale Crater conditions could support microbial life. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS Manganese-rich sandstones discovered ...

Scientists Gear Up for Solar Storms at Mars

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

This coronal mass ejection, captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, erupted on the Sun on August 31, 2012, traveling over 900 miles ...

Mars Express Discovers Mysterious Martian “Spiders”

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

The dark spots in this image from ESA’s Mars Express are the telltale sign of ‘spiders’ scattered across the southern polar region ...

Are there Spiders on Mars? ESA unveils truth behind the mysterious clusters seen on the red planet

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

The European Space Age (ESA) recently shared pictures of the mysterious spider-like clusters on the planet Mars. The space agency has, however, ...

Martian Methane Baffles Scientists: Curiosity Rover’s Surprising Discovery

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

NASA’s Curiosity Rover has detected methane in Gale Crater on Mars, a surprising find as there are no signs of life on ...

Satellite Photo Shows an Army of ‘Black Spiders’ on Mars

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

A photo taken by the European Space Agency’s Mars Express orbiter has set the internet alight after it apparently shows large clusters ...

David Bowie was right – there are spiders on Mars! European Space Agency’s spacecrafts snap mysterious arachnid shapes on the Red Planet

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Although not actual spiders, ‘araneiforms’ are dark cracks in the Martian soil READ MORE: Mars has two miles of water buried at ...

NASA Mars Helicopter’s Final Message Home Was A Touching Tribute

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter throws a shadow on the dusty surface on Aug. 2, 2023 when it was … [+] still operational ...