The award for best job advert might go to NASA this year after the intrepid space agency posted it was looking for applicants to spend “a year on Mars”. The US cosmic exploration body is launching a bid to find a crew
Scientists have ruled out any ties between the shock find and ancient Incan rituals, and believe the rodents ascended the mountains on their own. They say the ultra dry, wind-swept summits of volcanoes in the Atacama Plateau of Chile and Argentina are
The European Space Agency (ESA) has released a stunning video that shows what it would be like to soar above the surface of Mars. Specifically, the visualisation covers the eastern portion of Noctis Labyrinthus — a vast system of deep and steep
Mars’ Olympus Mons is the largest volcano in the entire Solar System, towering above anything in the surrounding plains. Researchers believe it last erupted about 25 million years ago. Found in the Tharsis Montes region near the Martian equator, the volcano is
A photo from Mars taken by NASA’s Viking 1 spacecraft left people perplexed and wondering about the possibility of extraterrestrial life on this day in history, July 25, 1976. Dubbed the “Face on Mars,” the image appeared to show a carving of