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Carl Sagan and four colleagues published the 1983 'TTAPS' paper that introduced the phrase 'nuclear winter', and the calculations that frightened Reagan and Gorbachev into arms talks were first run not on a supercomputer but on a model originally built to study dust storms on Mars.

By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jun 5, 2026

In 1999, NASA lost a $125 million Mars spacecraft because of a metric-versus-imperial mix-up — the kind of conversion mistake most of us have made, only this one ended with a probe disappearing into the Martian atmosphere

By Space Daily Editorial Team · May 27, 2026

The Opportunity rover's famous last words — "my battery is low and it's getting dark" — were never actually sent from Mars. The real story of where that sentence came from is stranger, and somehow sadder

By Space Daily Editorial Team · May 26, 2026

NASA's Perseverance rover is about to finish its first marathon on Mars, and it's taken the six-wheeled robot more than five years to do it

By Space Daily Editorial Team · May 17, 2026

A hidden layer of microbial life has been found beneath the Atacama Desert, and it may be the closest Earth can get to rehearsing the search for life on Mars

By Space Daily Editorial Team · May 17, 2026

Mars relay orbiter seen as backbone for future exploration

By Space Daily Editorial Team · Feb 17, 2026

Perseverance rover now self-locates precisely on Mars

By Space Daily Editorial Team · Feb 17, 2026

UAE extends Mars probe mission until 2028

By Space Daily Editorial Team · Feb 17, 2026

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4798-4803: Back for More Science

By Space Daily Editorial Team · Feb 13, 2026

Martian toxin found to toughen microbe built bricks

By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jan 30, 2026

Ancient deltas reveal vast Martian ocean across northern hemisphere

By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jan 6, 2026

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4788-4797: Welcome Back from Conjunction

By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jan 3, 2026

The electrifying science behind Martian dust

By Space Daily Editorial Team · Dec 26, 2025

Tiny Mars' big impact on Earth's climate

By Space Daily Editorial Team · Dec 26, 2025

NASA Study: Non-biologic Processes Don't Fully Explain Mars Organics

By Space Daily Editorial Team · Dec 22, 2025

Perseverance rover completes landmark AI guided trek across Jezero rim

By Space Daily Editorial Team · Dec 18, 2025