长期以来，尘暴一直与火星的水分流失有关，但大多数研究都集中在大型的、遍及整个行星的事件上。这项新的研究表明，较小的区域性风暴也能发挥强大的作用，将水提升到更高的高度，在那里水更容易逃逸到太空中。早期的研究也强调南半球夏季是水分流失的主要时期，这使得北 ...

PARIS — The European Space Agency (ESA) has found $450 million in likely new sources of funding for its ExoMars missions to Mars, a two-launch effort being hurriedly redesigned with Russia following ...

The European Space Agency is still in the midst of investigating what happened to ExoMars' Schiaparelli lander, which seemed to disappear 50 seconds before it was supposed to land. At the presscon the ...

Astrobiology often conjures images of alien-laden exoplanets circling some far-flung star. But much of the European Astrobiology Institute’s recent biennial meeting in the Canary Islands was devoted ...

From Fukushima to the darkest corners of the ocean, robots built for extreme environments and an appetite for discovery continue to enlighten our understanding of places too dangerous to tread. Those ...