A Lifeless Mars? Study Says Red Planet Is Deadlier Than Previously Thought
Back in 1971, David Bowie famously posed the question, “is there life on Mars?” While many experts have thought the answer could be yes, a new study reveals this is unlikely – unless it’s hiding way underneath the cold planet’s surface. In lab tests conducted by Jennifer Wadsworth and Charles Cockell from the University of Edinburgh, chemical compounds called perchlorates … Continue reading
NASA Tells InfoWars: There Are No ‘Child Slave’ Mars Colonies
NASA has responded to bizarre claims that a colony of kidnapped child slaves exists on the planet Mars by asserting that there are “no humans” on the Red Planet. The space agency was responding to comments made by an InfoWars guest, who said that children have been sent on a “20-year ride” to be slaves on a Mars outpost. Robert … Continue reading
A New Moon Mission is Part of NASA’s Mars Plan
A group of astronauts may spend a year in orbit around the moon in the late 2020s as part of NASA’s plan to send humans to Mars in the 2030s, agency officials said. Greg Williams, NASA’s deputy associate administrator for policy and plans in the agency’s Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, spoke today at the Humans to Mars Summit … Continue reading
NASA Discovers Strange, Deep Hole on the South Pole of Mars; Unable to Explain It
You’d think NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has seen everything there is to see on the Martian surface in the 11 years it’s orbited our nearest neighbour, but a snapshot taken over the planet’s South Pole has revealed something we can’t explain. While the planet’s entire surface is pocked with various depressions and craters, a vast pit spotted among the … Continue reading
Technological Aliens Once Inhabited Solar System, Prof Claims
A prior indigenous technological species might have arisen on ancient Earth or another body, such as a pre-greenhouse Venus or a wet Mars. That’s the focus of a paper by Penn State University’s Dr. Jason T. Wright, an associate professor in astronomy and astrophysics. Published this week in arXic, “Prior Indigenous Technological Species” is based on Wright’s idea that an … Continue reading
Genetically Engineered ‘Star Trek-Type Beings’ Will Colonize Mars
The way to the Red Planet and other mysterious worlds is being inspired by the villainous Khan from the blockbuster films, according to new research. The use of stem cell technology may mean the difference between life and death on any attempt to travel beyond Earth into the wilderness of space. So the first person to walk on Mars is … Continue reading
No Oxygen? No Problem! Mars’ Volcanoes May Have Created Conditions Ripe for Life
New research suggests an oxygen-rich atmosphere might not be so crucial for the emergence of life after all. Considering the size and number of volcanos on the Red Planet, volcanic activity there has arguably been the determining factor for conditions on Mars. At least, that is what a new study published in the journal Icarus by a joint team of … Continue reading
NASA’s Mars Probe (MRO) Sends Home Snapshots of Basin on Mars Where a Lake Once Existed
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has snapped photos of the Melas Basin, which researchers believe was once the location of a 1,300-foot-deep lake when Mars was a watery world billions of years ago. In the MRO image, “a group of steeply inclined light-toned layers is bounded above and below by unconformities (sudden or irregular changes from one deposit to another),” … Continue reading
Was the Remains of an Ancient Particle Accelerator Discovered on Mars?
The search for water, or even signs of life, on the planet Mars has been ongoing for some time. But with today’s announcement by CERN and NASA scientists, the exploration of the red planet has revealed a major new discovery. New images of the surface of Mars taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter probe, analysed by an interdisciplinary team of … Continue reading
Alien Life Could be Hidden on Mars Says NASA
Scientists are investigating if the most simplistic forms of alien life developed in vast oceans that once covered the Red Planet. They believe if they did, there may still be survivors in water that has remained beneath the surface. NASA made the announcement as it unveiled the results of studies into what exactly stripped Mars of its atmosphere which meant … Continue reading
