NASA is also working to evolve key technologies that will enable low-cost exploration missions to Mars and throughout the solar system. This includes what is considered to be the most important ...

All evidence points to Mars having had a carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere billions of years ago, but insufficient carbonates in Martian soil challenge this theory. Now, a new study using data from ...

Nasa's Perseverance rover discovered a skull-shaped rock, dubbed "Skull Hill," in Mars' Jezero Crater, standing out against the lighter terrain. Chemical analysis ruled out meteorite composition ...

SpaceX aims for Starship to reach Mars by the end of next year, potentially paving the way for human missions as early as 2029, though 2031 is considered more realistic. Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX ...

Published in the journal IMA Fungus, a new study highlights the potential for lichens to survive and function on the Martian surface, challenging previous assumptions about the uninhabitable ...

Ben Tutolo, associate professor in the Department of Earth, Energy and Environment in the Faculty of Science at the University of Calgary, is the lead researcher on a paper about Mars. Tutolo is a ...

Cars driving past the Kennedy Center witnessed an unexpected liftoff on Thursday, after a 30-foot-tall Mars balloon escaped its moorings and rolled from its place outside the arts center onto the ...

The envoy, Kirill Dmitriev, said Moscow could discuss the offer with Musk by video conference. Russia could supply a small nuclear power plant for a mission to Mars planned by billionaire ...

NASA’s Mars rover has spotted something out of this world — a mysterious, skull-shaped elevation – sitting on a slope where star-gazers say it doesn’t belong. The mysterious rock – dubbe ...

Is it possible to colonise Mars? In 1964, Nasa’s uncrewed Mariner 4 spacecraft made its first successful fly-by of Mars. Then, in July 1976, a craft (Viking 1) made the first successful landing ...

On Earth and Mars, iron and magnesium are some of the main contributors to igneous rocks, which form from the cooling of magma or lava,' the space agency said. 'These rocks can include dark ...

The Mars Curiosity rover has found the largest organic molecules yet on the Red Planet. Organic molecules are the building blocks of life, although they can also be produced by geological processes.