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Rare Meteorites, Moon Rocks & A Fragment From Mars Could Be Yours For The Right Price

Rare Meteorites, Moon Rocks & A Fragment From Mars Could Be Yours For The Right Price

Meteorites, moon rocks and even a fragment from Mars are just a few of the celestial items the public can pick up at auction this week. Christie’s auction house in New York City will present 75 of the astral rocks and other rare items from outer space in its “Deep Impact: Martian, Lunar and Other […]

3y ago

Mars Rover Perseverance Launches, Will Collect Martian Rock Samples In Search For Signs Of Ancient Life

Mars Rover Perseverance Launches, Will Collect Martian Rock Samples In Search For Signs Of Ancient Life

The Mars rover Perseverance successfully launched from the Kennedy Space Center on Thursday. Its ambitious mission will be to search for signs of life and even send back Martian rock samples for study here on Earth. As The Associated Press reported, the spacecraft launched into clear skies aboard an Atlas V rocket and is expected […]

4y ago

NASA’s Upcoming Mars Mission Will Feature Helicopter Test Flight, Search For Proof Of Life On Red Planet

NASA’s Upcoming Mars Mission Will Feature Helicopter Test Flight, Search For Proof Of Life On Red Planet

On Thursday, July 30, NASA will be launching its Perseverance Mars rover with the help of a four-pound helicopter called Ingenuity. Aside from including a technology demonstration that could feature some revolutionary test flights, the mission will mark the space agency’s latest effort to search for signs of past or present life on the red […]

4y ago

Mars Dust Devil Captured On Camera, Giant Storm Seen Dancing Across Surface Of The Red Planet

Mars Dust Devil Captured On Camera, Giant Storm Seen Dancing Across Surface Of The Red Planet

A NASA satellite has captured a rare image of a “dust devil” dancing across the surface of Mars, CNET reports. Though the Martian atmosphere is only one percent as dense as the Earth’s, it’s strong enough to generate intense winds. What’s more, the planet has dust in spades, and its wide, wind-swept plains make the […]

4y ago

SpaceX Rocket Successfully Destroyed During In-Flight Abort Test

SpaceX Rocket Successfully Destroyed During In-Flight Abort Test

SpaceX successfully completed its un-crewed In-Flight Abort test on Sunday, an important step in its quest to launch manned space flights in the future, according to Space.com. On the heels of the successful test this weekend, the private spaceflight company is anticipating the launch of another rocket this week. The company announced it will attempt […]

4y ago

Oxygen Detected On Mars, Scientists Aren’t Sure What To Make Of It

Oxygen Detected On Mars, Scientists Aren’t Sure What To Make Of It

NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover has detected rising and falling oxygen levels on the Red Planet that appear to fluctuate seasonally, Yahoo News reports. What that means, if indeed it means anything, remains to be seen. For decades, the space-exploration community has been sending spacecraft to Mars to try to suss out its mysteries. At this […]

5y ago

NASA Found Life On Mars In The 1970s, Claims Former Space Agency Scientist

NASA Found Life On Mars In The 1970s, Claims Former Space Agency Scientist

NASA found evidence of life on Mars during an experiment in the 1970s, says a former scientist with the space agency, but his superiors deemed the results inconclusive and didn’t publicize the findings. As CNN reports, back in the 1970s, the Americans and the Soviets sent up multiple craft to the red planet hoping to, […]

5y ago

Donald Trump Says NASA Is Going To Mars Next, Says Moon Is ‘Not So Exciting’

Donald Trump Says NASA Is Going To Mars Next, Says Moon Is ‘Not So Exciting’

During a White House meeting with Australia Prime Minister Scott Morrison, Space reports that Donald Trump spoke about NASA’s current goal of returning astronauts to the moon by 2024. According to Trump, the moon is just a “launching pad” for the end-goal: heading the Mars. “We’re stopping at the moon. The moon is actually a […]

5y ago

Why Humans Will Never Be Able To Live On Mars, Despite What Elon Musk Says

Why Humans Will Never Be Able To Live On Mars, Despite What Elon Musk Says

Science fiction has been filled with stories of human settlements on Mars for decades. Even storied minds like the late Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk have extrapolated on the Martian future, with people happily living on the red planet. However, many scientists have started hitting back on those “pie-in-the-sky” predictions, according to Gizmodo. All scientists […]

5y ago

50 Years Ago Today, We Put A Man On The Moon, Will We Ever Make It To Mars?

50 Years Ago Today, We Put A Man On The Moon, Will We Ever Make It To Mars?

On July 19, 1969, a human being set foot on the surface of the Moon. Now, 50 years later, it’s time to consider the question, will scientists ever put a human being on Mars? The scientific community certainly hopes so, but there are massive obstacles to overcome before that happens. Back in 2018, Prospect took […]

5y ago

New Mars Curiosity Rover Findings Suggest Life On The Red Planet, High Methane Levels Indicate Organic Source

New Mars Curiosity Rover Findings Suggest Life On The Red Planet, High Methane Levels Indicate Organic Source

NASA’s Curiosity Rover found possible signs of life on the red planet this week, in findings published Saturday in The New York Times. However, it’s far too early to conclude that life exists, or ever did exist, on Mars. On Wednesday, the spacecraft, which has already exceeded its planned mission’s life by several years, took […]

5y ago

There’s A ‘Star Trek’ Starfleet Logo On Mars, According To NASA

There’s A ‘Star Trek’ Starfleet Logo On Mars, According To NASA

CBS News is reporting that the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, known as MRO, captured a series of pictures of a symbol in a Martian sand dune that bore an uncanny resemblance to the iconic Star Trek Starfleet logo. NASA said that the symbol was apparently found in the southeast Hellas Planitia region. Though the images were […]

5y ago

Trump Tweet About The Moon And Mars Was Inspired By A Fox News Segment

Trump Tweet About The Moon And Mars Was Inspired By A Fox News Segment

President Trump sent a bizarre tweet Friday afternoon in which he argued against continuing missions to the moon and appeared to state that he thinks the moon is part of Mars. “For all of the money we are spending, NASA should NOT be talking about going to the Moon – We did that 50 years […]

5y ago

Curiosity Rover Breaks Mission Record, Snaps Selfie To Celebrate

Curiosity Rover Breaks Mission Record, Snaps Selfie To Celebrate

NASA’s Curiosity rover has just reached an important milestone. After nearly seven years of trekking the red planet, the six-wheeled robot has stumbled upon a cache of clay minerals larger than anything detected in all of its years on Mars. The momentous discovery was made on the slope of Mount Sharp – the 3.4-mile-high mountain […]

5y ago

NASA Mars Orbiter Captures Dazzling Thermal Image Of Phobos, The Largest Martian Moon

NASA Mars Orbiter Captures Dazzling Thermal Image Of Phobos, The Largest Martian Moon

Mars’ moon, Phobos, has been getting a lot of attention from NASA lately. The larger of the two Martian moons, Phobos recently made headlines after the InSight Mars lander spotted the shadow of its eclipse as the moon passed in front of the sun, The Inquisitr covered in March. The following month, it was the […]

5y ago

NASA’s InSight Lander Snaps Glorious Photos Of The Sunrise And Sunset On Mars

NASA’s InSight Lander Snaps Glorious Photos Of The Sunrise And Sunset On Mars

Hot on the heels of its incredible achievement in early April – when it detected what scientists believe to be the first confirmed “marsquake,” as previously covered by The Inquisitr – the InSight lander is now treating us to another gem. After focusing all of its attention on the Martian ground to listen for vibrations […]

5y ago

NASA’s InSight Lander Detects First Marsquake

NASA’s InSight Lander Detects First Marsquake

The Mars InSight Lander detected what scientist believe to be its first confirmed Marsquake. Experts have always had a hunch that the red planet experienced quakes, but on April 6, their suspicions were confirmed when the lander measured seismic waves moving through the interior of the planet, Space.com reported. Philippe Lognonné, the principal investigator for […]

5y ago

Curiosity Rover Conquers New Ground On Mars

Curiosity Rover Conquers New Ground On Mars

After much planning, long hours of observation, and a change of scenery meant to unravel even more of the red planet’s deep mysteries, the Mars Curiosity rover has hit a new historic milestone in its trek to explore and investigate the Martian landscape. This week, the intrepid robot successfully snagged its first drilled sample in […]

5y ago

Mars Curiosity Rover Spots Two Solar Eclipses On The Red Planet

Mars Curiosity Rover Spots Two Solar Eclipses On The Red Planet

Solar eclipses are a wondrous thing to behold here on Earth, but witnessing an eclipse on another planet imbues the astronomical event with an even deeper air of mystery and fascination. While human eyes can only vicariously experience the sight of an alien solar eclipse, some space travelers do boast the privilege of beholding such […]

5y ago

Mars Orbiter Spots Dust Devil Tracks On The Red Planet

Mars Orbiter Spots Dust Devil Tracks On The Red Planet

Keeping a watchful eye over the red planet from space, the Mars Express Orbiter has recently come across some interesting dark features while hovering over the planet’s southern hemisphere. From its vantage point above Mars, the spacecraft spotted what scientists refer to as dust devil tracks — “wispy, filament-like streaks” sprawling across the dusty Martian […]

5y ago

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