The United States is eyeing the possibility of building nuclear power plants that will be suitable on the moon and Mars. It released a request for ideas from the private sector on how to do that.
Cuatro Cienegas Coahuila pools have sedimentary structures of organisms that are most likely similar to what is found in Mars and are now investigated by a group of scientists.
While tech companies like Facebook and Google are planning to deliver wireless data via hot air balloons or drones and fighting over which face-strapped monitors will be the future of the internet, the European Space Agency is busy at work on some serious, short-term high tech: our next mission to mars. But the way it's doing it looks fun.
The National Geographic reported on Feb. 24 that scientists believe the "blueberries" NASA's Opportunity rover found on Mars in 2004 are not geological evidence of ancient water.
The nonprofit venture, Mars One, has announced a partnership with Colorado-based Lockheed Martin Space Systems to develop an unmanned spacecraft to land on Mars.
