The highly-controversial "Mars One" consortium, which is planning to establish a community of humans on the Red Planet, admitted on Wednesday that its project will likely be delayed by at least half a decade.

The consortium, a British-Dutch company, announced yesterday that its first manned mission to Mars would not take place until at least 2031. Previously, the consortium had targeted 2026 for the highly ambitious mission.

American space agency NASA has released the first color images of the European Space Agency’s Mars lander Schiaparelli’s crash site, providing new details about the lander’s abortive touchdown attempt.

According to ESA, Schiaparelli slammed hard into surface of the Red Planet while attempting to land on October 19, 2016. Project managers guessed that failure of the spacecraft’s descent-slowing thrusters caused the crash.

American space agency NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has noticed that the giant hexagon surrounding Saturn’s North Pole has changed color.

Created by a semi-permanent hurricane located at the north pole of the planet, the massive six-sided cloud pattern has been known to scientists since the Voyager missions in the early 1980s.

The Cassini probe, which has been orbiting Saturn since the year of 2004, has extensively studied the hexagon. A recent footage sent back to earth by the probe showed that the hexagon has changed its color from blue to gold.

Mercury has been found depicting similar geological processes as of Earth. Scientists at NASA found evidence for Mercury being tectonically active just like Earth.