Thirty years covering
Mars exploration and planetary science.
Mars Daily has been reporting since 1995. Browse the full archive below by year and month, or jump to a beat: Mars Daily.
Recent
All articles →
How did a Central American country smaller than West Virginia go from one of the worst deforestation rates on Earth in the 1980s to doubling its forest cover in a single generation?
On 12 August 2026, Heart Aerospace's X1 lifted off from Plattsburgh, New York, weighing more than 25,000 pounds with a 106-foot wingspan, and flew for 27 minutes on roughly $5 of electricity — the largest battery-electric aircraft ever to leave the ground
On 14 April, the 5,000 fibre-optic eyes of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument locked onto a patch of sky near the Little Dipper and completed the largest high-resolution 3D map of the universe ever made, tracing dark energy's pull across 11 billion years of cosmic history
People who keep old birthday cards, faded ticket stubs, and handwritten notes in a drawer they rarely open aren't sentimental hoarders, they're keeping proof that certain moments actually happened
