High-flying tuner Larry Walters’ 1982 flight above Los Angeles in a lawn chair attached to 42 helium-filled weather balloons ...

One theory suggests Mars lost its water to space as solar wind stripped it from the atmosphere — a process supported by ratios of isotopes on the Red Planet, or distinct species of chemical ...

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"We are working to make reentry as commonplace as launch." California startup Varda Space Industries has completed its third successful space capsule return mission. Varda's W-3 reentry capsule ...

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How much water did Mars have in its ancient past and when did it disappear? This is what a recent study published in Geophysical Research Letters hopes to address as an international team of ...

The data centers that power artificial intelligence consume immense amounts of water to cool hot servers and, indirectly, from the electricity needed to run these facilities. All data centers by ...

As Mars’ magnetic field faded and its atmosphere thinned, most surface water vanished. Some escaped to space, some froze in polar caps, and some was trapped in minerals, where it remains today.

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With a thinner atmosphere, surface temperatures dropped; the planet's liquid water began to escape into space, become trapped as ice in the subsurface or polar caps, or become locked in hydrated ...