A new paper released today documents the first soil, airfall dust, and rock fragment samples collected by NASA for return ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover found a 'one-of-a-kind treasure' on the rim of Jezero Crater, a rock that could help reveal ...

By Jonathan Corum The distance between Earth and Mars constantly shifts ... To conserve fuel, spacecraft don’t launch toward the current position of Mars. Instead, they wait until the planet ...

There are many obstacles to overcome before humans can set foot on Mars, including problems surrounding launch mass and ...

A pipe dream or a scam to enrich himself further? Here's why scientists are skeptical of Elon Musk's dream for humans to colonize Mars.

Mars' southern hemisphere absorbs a lot of the sun's energy during the Red Planet's spring, and that may be causing Mars' ...

“One of the goals [of astrobiology] is to go to [other worlds] and look for microorganisms, but in the meantime there’s so ...

Experts told Newsweek about the difficulties of reaching Mars as the United States faces complex challenges in space policy.

“Folks who love space are the luckiest people on Earth,” Zacny mused ... self-sustaining cities on Mars,” Zacny and his SpaceX co-authors state, “and current SpaceX architecture plans ...

Spotting one or two of the planets in our solar system is well worth a good skywatch, but seeing (almost) all of them in a ...

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Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, we detected more than 7000 of them in our Galaxy. But there are ...