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Orbital image of the global dust storm occurring in Martian Year 34 (mid-2018), which enveloped the entire Red Planet. (Credit: NASA/ESU)

Mars dust storms may create electrical hazards for future missions

Researchers analyzed Mars Year 34, including the 2018 global dust storm, using Mars Climate Database v.6.1.
The study found lower-atmosphere electric fields under breakdown-favorable conditions during the storm.
The authors do not quantify risk to specific spacecraft or habitats but argue the environment deserves closer attention.
Future Mars mission planning may need to treat dust storms as electrostatic hazards as well as visibility and power hazards.

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DT Editorial Team·Jul 22, 2026·via universetoday.com

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NASA’s Perseverance took this selfie at “Witch Hazel Hill” on Jezero Crater’s rim on May 10th, 2025. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

NASA's Perseverance Rover Uncovers Evidence of 4 Billion Year Old Impacts

A new study links Jezero rim bedrock to repeated impacts more than 3.9 billion years ago.
The layered Broom Point formation may preserve a record of the Late Heavy Bombardment.
Mars retains ancient geological evidence that has largely been erased on Earth.

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DT Editorial Team·Jul 20, 2026·via universetoday.com

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NASA's Psyche mission delivers Mars flyby data, time-lapse video

NASA’s Psyche mission turns Mars flyby into a rehearsal for asteroid science

Psyche used a May 15 Mars flyby to gain speed and adjust its trajectory toward asteroid Psyche.
NASA says the spacecraft’s imager, magnetometer, and gamma-ray and neutron spectrometer all performed strongly.
The encounter served as a real-world rehearsal for the asteroid science campaign planned for 2029.

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DT Editorial Team·Jul 18, 2026·via phys.org

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Mars in all of its red-hued glory. The InSIGHT lander's mission ended a few years ago, and scientists are still working with its data and what it tells them about the planet. Though it lacks plate tectonics, Mars may still have a magma system in its interior, according to new research. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/USGS

Mars may hide vast magma systems beneath a stagnant crust

New research links a Martian crustal seismic discontinuity to magmatism detected through InSight data.
The study suggests Mars developed a melt-depleted lower crust and broad magma systems without plate tectonics.
The result could influence how scientists model the evolution of rocky planets beyond Earth.

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DT Editorial Team·Jun 29, 2026·via universetoday.com

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Possible signs of ancient life on Mars are rich in complex carbon

Mars rover finds complex carbon in a puzzling rock outcrop

Perseverance detected macromolecular carbon in rocks at the Bright Angel outcrop inside Jezero crater.
The site had already drawn attention because of unusual spotted rock textures resembling some microbial traces on Earth.
Scientists say the finding is compelling but not conclusive because similar carbon compounds can also form without life.

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DT Editorial Team·Jun 25, 2026·via newscientist.com

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The large impact crater known as Stickney is the largest crater on the Martian moon Phobos. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona

Phobos study sharpens the search for Mars moon origins

Researchers are modeling Phobos’ interior and gravitational field to constrain its origin.
The giant Stickney Crater may preserve a localized dense region created by the impact that formed it.
The crater-forming event could date to about 4.2 billion years ago under the giant-impact model or about 2.6 billion years ago under asteroid capture.
Japan’s MMX mission, due for launch in late 2026, is expected to provide crucial new data on the Martian moon.

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DT Editorial Team·Jun 20, 2026·via universetoday.com

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A new method could enable the low-cost production of medicines for missions operating far from Earth. Credit: Sierra Space

Plants Could Let Astronauts Make Medicine in Space

UC San Diego researchers described a plant-based method for producing and repeatedly harvesting a therapeutic virus in microgravity.
The approach aims to reduce waste and preserve plants, making pharmaceutical production more practical on long-duration missions.
The work supports a broader push toward self-sufficiency for lunar and Mars exploration.

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DT Editorial Team·Jun 20, 2026·via universetoday.com

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Map showing just how varied Martian gravity is over its surface. Credit - NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio

NASA researcher outlines a Mars time standard for future settlement and operations

A new paper proposes Areocentric Coordinate Time for Mars.
Relativistic effects would cause Martian surface and orbital clocks to drift apart.
The framework is meant to support future navigation, communications, and settlement systems.

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DT Editorial Team·Jun 16, 2026·via universetoday.com

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Curiosity Blog: Sols 4913-4919: Planetary explorers, freewheeling to the Yardang unit!

Curiosity Rover Freewheels Toward Yardang Unit, Exploring Laminated Bedrock

Curiosity is in a freewheeling exploration phase between campaigns, driving south toward the yardang unit.
The rover is analyzing laminated bedrock with alternating pale and dark layers using APXS, MAHLI, and ChemCam.
Targets include Rio Bio Bio, Placilla de Caracoles, La Primavera, and Los Quemados.
The yardang unit is a series of wind-sculpted pale hills visible in the distance.

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DT Editorial Team·Jun 11, 2026·via science.nasa.gov

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Artist’s concept of NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft at Mars. NASA recently announced that, due to a loss of communications, the mission had ended. Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Colorado/LASP

NASA Ends MAVEN After 11 Years Studying Mars

NASA concluded that MAVEN cannot be recovered after losing communications in December 2025.
The orbiter spent 11 years at Mars, far beyond its original one-year mission.
MAVEN transformed understanding of how solar activity stripped away the Martian atmosphere.

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DT Editorial Team·Jun 6, 2026·via universetoday.com

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Next-generation satellites turn to light to escape crowded radio bands

NASA’s MAVEN mission appears lost after 11 years at Mars

The supplied source text says NASA has declared MAVEN unrecoverable.
MAVEN was a long-running Mars mission focused on atmospheric evolution.
Losing an 11-year orbiter would end a valuable stream of long-term Mars observations.
The candidate metadata and source text conflict, so the article stays tightly limited to supported claims.

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DT Editorial Team·Jun 5, 2026·via interestingengineering.com

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MAVEN reached Mars in September 2014 and began its scheduled one-year mission to study the planet's atmosphere. It lasted 11 years, and in 2023 it witnessed a coronal mass ejection strike Mars' atmosphere. Because of that serendipitious observation, scientists saw how the unmagnetized planet was still able to deflect some of the solar wind. Image Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Colorado/Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics

Mars can still deflect solar wind without a global magnetosphere

MAVEN observed Mars during a 2023 coronal mass ejection.
Researchers say Mars’ ionosphere can produce a solar-wind-deflecting effect.
The finding could influence models of atmospheric loss and habitability.

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DT Editorial Team·Jun 5, 2026·via universetoday.com

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After 11 years at Mars, NASA's MAVEN spacecraft went out with a whisper

NASA ends recovery effort for MAVEN after months of silence at Mars

NASA has ceased efforts to search for and recover the MAVEN spacecraft.
MAVEN vanished after a routine occultation behind Mars on December 6.
The orbiter had worked at Mars for 11 years after arriving in 2014.

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DT Editorial Team·Jun 4, 2026·via arstechnica.com

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Curiosity Blog, Sols 4908-4912: Goodbye Campo Marte, It’s Been Fun!

Curiosity wraps Campo Marte drill campaign and heads uphill

Curiosity completed follow-up work after its 47th successful drill at Campo Marte.
CheMin and SAM analyzed the sample while other instruments documented the site.
The rover is now driving toward the next science area higher on Mount Sharp.

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DT Editorial Team·Jun 4, 2026·via science.nasa.gov

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Space Archives - Interesting Engineering

Moon oxygen becomes a prerequisite for deeper space plans

Interesting Engineering frames lunar oxygen as a prerequisite for Mars habitation.
The excerpt says the Moon race has moved beyond landing and leaving.
Supplied source text also references permanent moon-base ambitions and lunar-soil construction work.

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DT Editorial Team·May 31, 2026·via interestingengineering.com

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Artist’s illustration of the Zwan-Wolf effect at Mars, which is an atmospheric effect involving the solar wind, and was observed by NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) spacecraft in December 2023. (Credit: LASP/CU Boulder)

MAVEN Detects Plasma Squeeze in Mars’ Upper Atmosphere

MAVEN observed the Zwan-Wolf effect at Mars during a December 2023 solar storm.
Mars lacks a global magnetic field, so the effect appeared in the ionosphere.
The finding expands understanding of how solar wind shapes planetary atmospheres.

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DT Editorial Team·May 30, 2026·via universetoday.com

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An illustration of MAVEN in orbit around Mars

Mars was caught squeezing plasma in a way scientists thought impossible

Researchers linked the effect to a powerful December 2023 solar storm.
The Zwan-Wolf effect was previously thought impossible on Mars.
The finding could change models of space weather and atmospheric behavior.

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DT Editorial Team·May 29, 2026·via livescience.com

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A Probe Took Incredible Pictures of Mars on Its Way to a Far-Off Asteroid

Psyche’s Mars Flyby Delivered More Than A Gravity Assist

Psyche passed within 4,609 kilometers of Mars.
NASA used the flyby to calibrate cameras and other instruments.
The spacecraft is headed to asteroid Psyche, where it is expected to arrive in 2029.

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DT Editorial Team·May 26, 2026·via wired.com

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Mission commander Chun Wang works on his laptop with Earth looming outside the window of SpaceX's Dragon capsule during the Fram2 mission in 2025. (Chun Wang / SpaceX via X)

Private Space Ambition Shifts From Lunar Tourism Toward a Mars Flyby Pitch

Private astronaut Chun Wang said he is working toward a future Starship flyby of Mars.
SpaceX reportedly said such a round trip would take two years, though no timeline was given.
Wang also plans a lunar flyby as a nearer-term step.

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DT Editorial Team·May 25, 2026·via universetoday.com

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Artist's rendering of a greenhouse on Mars. (Credit: Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC))

Fungi May Help Turn Martian Dirt Into Crop-Growing Soil

Researchers reviewed how beneficial fungi might support crop growth in lunar and Martian regolith.
The work emphasizes nutrient cycling and stress tolerance as key advantages.
The concept remains early-stage and requires further real-world testing.

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DT Editorial Team·May 24, 2026·via universetoday.com

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