A half-century after the Viking landers touched down on the Red Planet, the debate over whether they found signs of life ...

While the northern hemisphere of Earth makes its way through winter, the southern hemisphere of Mars is reaching the end of spring, and as a result it is blooming, with patches of darkness blossoming ...

A swarm of spherical rovers, blown by the wind like tumbleweeds, could enable large-scale and low-cost exploration of the Martian surface, according to results presented at the Joint Meeting of the ...

How can drones help find buried water on Mars? This is what a recent study published in Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated how ...

HUMAN LAWS can be changed, waived or broken. Physical laws are less biddable. When it comes to putting humans on Mars, which he sees as the first step towards the planet’s settlement and humankind’s ...

Amused observers have long dismissed Elon Musk’s dream to colonize Mars as unserious science fiction. But in his pursuit of the Red Planet, Musk has managed to build a deadly serious business with ...

NASA is weighing an uncrewed Mars mission concept powered by nuclear-electric propulsion, with reporting indicating a target of operations by the end of 2028. The plan, as described in recent ...

NASA’s Mars exploration efforts have inspired a breakthrough in energy storage, as highlighted by Undecided with Matt Ferrell. Noon Energy, a California-based startup, has developed a system capable ...

Russia's state atomic energy corporation, Rosatom, has developed a plasma electric rocket engine that could send spacecraft to Mars in just 30 to 60 days. The plasma engine works by accelerating ...