Roger C. Wiens, professor of earth, atmospheric, and planetary sciences in the College of Science, will present his groundbreaking exploration of the Red Planet with instruments that he developed for ...

Registration is open for faculty to attend the Westwood Lecture Series on Sept. 12. Space is limited and registration is required. Roger C. Wiens, professor of earth, atmospheric, and planetary ...

NASA’s Mars rover finds organic signals in mudstone that resemble microbial activity, sparking new debate over life on the ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has sent back a striking new "postcard" from high on the slopes of the Red Planet's Mount Sharp, ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has collected a sample from Mars that has textures “unlike anything we’ve ever seen before.” Known as “Silver Mountain,” the rock core has been sealed into a tube so it can ...

Samples collected from a rock dubbed “Cheyava Falls” contain a structure that hints at the possibility of having a biological origin, according to the space agency, but more research needs to be ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Was Mars once covered in oceans? If so, where did they go? Like many scientific endeavors, understanding the history of water on Mars is a team ...

NASA has lost contact with one of its three spacecraft orbiting Mars, the agency announced Tuesday. Meanwhile, a second Mars orbiter is perilously close to running out of fuel, and the third mission ...

NASA announced it found promising potential biosignatures on Mars. Potential biosignatures are things like chemicals and structures that could be a result of life on the planet, but more research was ...

Thomas Zurbuchen, retired director of the Science Mission Directorate at NASA, and science journalist Nadia Drake will talk about the search for life beyond Earth in a free public lecture and ...

Last week, NASA revealed that it had lost the signal from its MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) spacecraft, one of just seven Earthly probes currently orbiting Mars. The agency failed to ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. ASL STREAM - Was Mars once covered in oceans? If so, where did they go? Like many scientific endeavors, understanding the history of water on Mars ...