Oxidation Fascination NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has discovered rocky material that is riddled with an unusual amount of ...

The Curiosity Mars rover has detected intriguing chemical evidence, in the form of anomalous amounts of manganese oxide, ...

Manganese was found in an ancient Mars lakebed, suggesting that the environment could have been highly useful to lifeforms.

A research team using the ChemCam instrument onboard NASA's Curiosity rover discovered higher-than-usual amounts of manganese ...

The light shows can be seen across the entirety of Mars, due to our neighboring planet's lack of magnetic field.

Manganese-rich sandstones discovered by NASA’s Curiosity rover indicate there were once habitable conditions in the Gale ...

The results suggest that the sediments were formed in a river, delta, or near the shoreline of an ancient, habitable lake on ...

A research team using the ChemCam instrument onboard NASA's Curiosity rover discovered higher-than-usual amounts of manganese in lakebed rocks within Gale Crater on Mars, which indicates that the ...

We have traveled to Mars, made working artificial hearts, explored the deepest depths of the Mariana Trench, and sequenced the human genome, and yet, we haven’t been able to make artificial blood. Why ...

ChemCam uses a laser to zap rocks and create a plasma, then analyzes the light ... The discovery of similar processes on ancient Mars suggests that the planet might once have had some form of ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover continues to search for signs that Mars’ Gale Crater conditions could support microbial life. Manganese-rich sandstones indicate there were once habitable conditions in the ...

Fire, water, sleep, matter... everything works differently in zero-gravity. So, experiments on ISS tend to throw up surprises ...