Mars, the next frontier in space exploration, still poses many questions for scientists. The planet was once more hospitable, ...

Wherever it's coming from, it ends up trapped under this salt crust. By pumping different concentrations of perchlorates through the simulated Mars regolith, scientists found that three to 13 days ...

Vincent Chevrier, associate research professor at the University of Arkansas Center for Space and Planetary Sciences, is part ...

Researchers are looking underfoot to uncover the mysterious past of Mars: Martian regoliths in the soil. Their water storage capabilities may help us understand the change in water on Mars over time.

Sadly, InSight’s primary means of looking at what lies beneath the regolith of Mars is currently stuck a few centimeters below the surface. NASA and JPL engineers are working on a fix, ...

After diving into the data, it became clear that the problem boils down to a simple fact: Mars is weird. More specifically, the Martian regolith did not have the physical characteristics that the ...

That’s not true of Mars.” The regolith, or materials that cover the ground of the planet, tells an ancient water story — one that students of space like Hausrath are uncovering, piece by piece.