In the five decades since we first started sending spacecraft to Mars, exploration of the red planet has had a poor record of success. It is…
David Rothery, Professor of Planetary Geosciences at The Open University writes for The Conversation about NASA’s Mars Insight probe. Most space missions investigate the surface or…
A UK team led by the Open University has given the green light for Mars’ moon material to be transported to Earth as part of a…
The first results from the ExoMars mission – which includes instruments led by The Open University – give new evidence in the debate over whether methane…
The discovery of life on Mars would get pretty much everyone excited. But the scientists hunting for it would probably be happy no matter what…
The New Horizons spacecraft, which flew past Pluto in 2015, successfully completed a flyby of “Ultima Thule”, an object in the Kuiper belt of bodies beyond…
Scientists from The Open University (OU) have discovered a series of large fan-shaped sediment deposits on the surface of Mars. These suggest that Mars once had…
The age old question of whether Mars has ever supported life is the focus of the latest research from scientists at The Open University (OU). With…
Sitting with 200 people at the International Mars Sample Return Conference in Berlin recently to discuss the feasibility of bringing samples back from Mars to Earth,…
An ice-filled Martian crater is visible in the first photographs of Mars transmitted from the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO). After a year of extremely dangerous…
