(Natural News) The “blueberries” of Mars are not the least bit organic, much less edible. But the small, ferrous spheres strewn across the surface of Mars could tell us about the Red Planet during the time when liquid water flowed across its young face. First discovered by NASA’s Opportunity rover in 2004, the hematite-rich geologic features […]

(Natural News) Who in their right mind would want to go to Venus? NASA, apparently, as an article in Live Science reported how the space agency plans to send astronauts to the planet once considered the first stop for space travelers in classic science fiction stories. Venus makes the airless moon or chilly Mars look hospitable for human […]

(Natural News) What are humans going to eat during their long – or permanent – stay on Mars? Researchers suggest that instead of bringing prepared rations, future Martian explorers and colonists should till the soil of the Red Planet to cultivate food crops. It takes a lot of time and money to launch a few […]

(Natural News) The surface of Mars might be barren today, but conditions underground could have been hospitable for alien life in the distant past. Researchers are now theorizing that there was enough hydrogen dissolved in the ground that could have sustained certain types of microbes. This finding is based on similar subterranean conditions on Earth. […]

(Natural News) Dr. McCoy of Star Trek once described space as disease and danger wrapped in darkness and silence. The fictional character is now being echoed by Bulgarian researchers, who claim that manned deep-space missions to Mars will face extreme dangers far greater than those encountered by the Apollo missions. The researchers based their claims […]

(Natural News) A recent study released by NASA-sponsored researchers has removed the luster from one of the crown jewels of science fiction and popular science, an article in News Wise stated. The study reported that while Mars can be explored and colonized by human astronauts, the Red Planet cannot be terraformed into a habitable state, at least not […]

(Natural News) A new study published by NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) has thrown a major wrench into the government’s pipe dream of one day sending actual human beings to Mars. According to the study’s findings, the excessive amount of travel time that would be required to get astronauts all the way to the […]

(Natural News) Gilbert Levin served as the lead investigator of the Labeled Release life detection experiment that was carried out on the two Viking Landers that NASA sent to Mars in 1976. Although his instrument ultimately yielded positive results at both locations, the finding has been largely memory-holed. In a video posted to Brighteon.com, Levin […]

(Natural News) Analysis of a rare meteorite from Mars has provided new evidence that the planet crystallized and formed its crust very quickly. An article on Science Daily stated that this rapid crust formation translates into a much better chance for alien life to have formed and existed on the Red Planet during its early […]

(Natural News) Looks like there is another good long-term source of power for Martian exploration vehicles aside from a nuclear reactor. Danish researchers reported that Mars has enough wind to generate useful levels of power, an article in Space.com stated. The Aarhus University (AU) research team started looking into the feasibility of wind power on Mars in […]