If you thought space was silent, think again. Thanks to NASA's latest Mars rover, anyone can hear the sound of the Martian wind. IDEAS tunes in to the sounds of space and the people working to ...

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Back in 2013 American space agency NASA launched something called the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft. The role of the Lockheed Martin-built piece of hardware is to study ...

In space, new boundaries were reached and amazing discoveries were made in 2024. From Earth orbit to the fields of Mars to the moons of Jupiter, some incredible space exploration milestones were ...

When the Sun’s energy hits Mars’ upper atmosphere, it can knock particles loose and push them into space. Some of this happens slowly through well-known processes like photochemistry.

The atmosphere of Mars is extremely thin (roughly 1/100th of the density of Earth's atmosphere), but it is also primarily made up of carbon dioxide — a gas that is poisonous to us.