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March 18, 20263 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmNASA’s Perseverance Mars rover discovers even older lost rivers at Jezero CraterBy plying its ground-penetrating radar in…

Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.Better known as Deinococcus radiodurans, this microbe is…

February 27, 20263 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmNASA spots new signs of lightning on MarsTwo NASA spacecraft—the MAVEN orbiter and the Perseverance rover—have now…

Barely a year ago, the moon was “a distraction” to Elon Musk, the billionaire chief executive of SpaceX then fixated on his ludicrously ambitious project to…

February 9, 20262 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmElon Musk says SpaceX will prioritize a city on the moon instead of a colony on MarsSpaceX’s…

Nature, Published online: 16 January 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00194-8Nature staff discuss some of the week’s top science news.

If humans are ever to land on Mars, they will need somewhere to stay—a protective shell that can shield them from the sun’s harsh rays. One…

The most exciting rock known to science is a school-desk-sized chunk of mudstone currently stuck on Mars.Formed from fine, water-washed sediments on the floor of a…

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…

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…