Mars has been considered a calm, or rather a ‘dormant’ planet, cold, dusty, and not very active in terms of geology. But recent scientific findings have managed to alter the way we view Mars in a ...

Thanks to Einstein’s relativity, time flows differently on Mars than on Earth. NIST scientists have now nailed down the difference, showing that Mars clocks tick slightly faster—and fluctuate over the ...

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You know how it goes: You’re trying to get some shut-eye in your bunk after a long shift of scraping samples of prebiotic material from red rocks in Utopia Planitia, and before you know it, your alarm ...

Clocks tick faster on Mars than they do on Earth, in part because Mars experiences less gravitational pull from the Sun. Now scientists have calculated just how much faster — 477 microseconds, on ...

The excitement surrounding the Red Planet (Mars) has reached new levels with the emergence of a three-sided pyramid on the planet, going viral throughout social media and news agencies around the ...

The idea of humans living on Mars is closer to reality than it’s ever been. On Feb. 13, Elon Musk’s SpaceX ferried an international crew of four astronauts to the International Space Station, another ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In July of 2020, NASA engineers sent a rover named Perseverance hurtling into space. And ...