Mars

Why Mars chocolate bar is ditching its traditional wrapper

Mars will stop using a plastic wrapper and return to paper, much like it did up until the mid-1970s. The chocolate bars will undoubtedly feel a little different, but the business assures customers that this won't influence how fresh the food is — or they'll even get a refund

Martian River: NASA's Perseverance rover finds evidence of a once wild, raging river on Mars

NASA's Perseverance rover has found a riverbed on Mars. The coarse dirt and debris that the rover found, indicates that the river that once flowed through the Jezero Crater, was a massive one with very powerful and wild currents.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX ‘blew up’ world’s most powerful rocket: Why Starship launch is still considered a win

Starship, the world’s biggest and most powerful, exploded minutes after it took off. To everyday observers that appears like a failure. But Elon Musk’s SpaceX has touted it as a success. Here’s why

SpaceX Starship set for test launch today: What to know about the world’s biggest rocket

Jutting almost 400 feet into the South Texas sky, Starship could blast off today, with no one aboard. For this demo, SpaceX won't attempt any landings of the rocket or the spacecraft

Pre-Historic Life On Mars? NASA's Curiosity rover spots a strange bone-like rock on the red planet

NASA's Curiosity Rover has sent some strange images back to Earth over the years. It may have just sent the strangest images it has ever taken. Curiosity sent over images of a bunch of rocks at the bottom Gale Crater that looks like the remains of a fish or fir tree.

Want to live on Mars? Here's what it will feel like

NASA unveiled its new Mars-simulation habitat, in which volunteers will live for a year at a time to test what life will be like on future missions to Earth's neighbour

An Asteroid the size of Big Ben will move very close to Earth today. Will it hit the planet?

A massive asteroid called '2023 DZ2' will come within 1,73,000 km of Earth on 25 March. NASA says this event 'only happens once per decade'. The space rock will safely pass by our planet this week, but there is a slight possibility that it could strike us in the future

Is life on Mars evading detection?

Many probes have been sent to the Red Planet to search for microbial life. Now, a research reveals that the instruments being sent to Mars to collect evidence may not sensitive enough to make accurate assessments

Bear's face on Mars? NASA’s MRO snaps intriguing photo; see post

Though NASA has not clearly clarified anything about the viral photo, the University of Arizona tried to explain it in its Lunar and Planetary Laboratory blog

Watch: NASA shares images of the ‘Winter Wonderland’ Mars becomes as temperatures dip 123 degrees below zero

Watch: NASA shared a recent video taken by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory or JPL that showed what snow, frost, ice and a winter storm look like on Mars when the temperature dips 123 degrees Celsius below zero on the red planet.