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At Least 4.1‑Billion‑Year‑Old Martian Rock Reveals Early Water and Complex Mantle

Mineral and isotopic data showing early subsurface water plus chemistry that records varied mantle sources argue for targeted sample‑return from Mars' ancient highlands.

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Perseverance Reveals Three Distinct Water Alterations Recorded in Jezero’s Margin Unit

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Curiosity Finds Unusually Broad, Shallow Depressions on Mount Sharp

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Mars's Southern Mantle Is Hundreds of Degrees Hotter Than the North, Study Finds

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3mo ago

Machine Learning Maps 400 Bright Slope Streaks on Mercury, Hinting at Ongoing Volatile Loss

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NASA Confirms Loss of Contact With MAVEN After Routine Mars Occultation

Planetary Habitability

At Least 4.1‑Billion‑Year‑Old Martian Rock Reveals Early Water and Complex Mantle

Perseverance Reveals Three Distinct Water Alterations Recorded in Jezero’s Margin Unit

Curiosity Finds Unusually Broad, Shallow Depressions on Mount Sharp

Mars's Southern Mantle Is Hundreds of Degrees Hotter Than the North, Study Finds

JPL Validates Flexible 'Tiny Cape' Radar Antenna for SkyFall Mars Helicopters

Curiosity Captures Vast Sea of Polygonal Fractures on Mars

Perseverance Identifies 245‑Foot Impact‑Built Rock Sequence on Jezero Rim

Webb Finds Atmosphere on Giant Planet Orbiting a White Dwarf

MAVEN Detects Zwan‑Wolf Effect Operating in Mars’s Ionosphere

Mars Express Maps Dark Deposits in Shalbatana Vallis

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Perseverance Shares Westernmost Selfie and Vivid Panorama From Mars

Curiosity Shakes Free 13-Kilogram Rock Stuck to Its Drill on Mars

Curiosity Shakes Free Stuck Martian Rock From Its Drill

Webb Maps the Surface of a Nearby Super-Earth, Revealing a Dark Basaltic World

Shelf-Like Band on Mars Bolsters Case for Ancient Northern Ocean

Perseverance Radar Reveals Ancient Buried Delta Beneath Jezero Crater

JWST Helps Reveal Sulfur-Rich Magma-Ocean World L 98-59 d

Oxford Study Finds Moon’s Magnetic Field Was Mostly Weak Through Its History

Machine Learning Maps 400 Bright Slope Streaks on Mercury, Hinting at Ongoing Volatile Loss

NASA Confirms Loss of Contact With MAVEN After Routine Mars Occultation

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