This has been a most interesting year to follow Mars. If you've been monitoring the Red Planet since the start of 2025, you have no doubt noted the dramatic change in its brightness as well as the ...
What do Mars and Wisconsin have in common? Well, the planet Mars does have a landscape that gives it an appearance resembling Swiss cheese - and there’s certainly a lot of cheese in Wisconsin. But ...
NASA's CHAPEA mission was a 378-day Mars simulation in a habitat in Houston. Scientists want to know what challenges astronauts will face on Mars, including extreme isolation. Crew member Ross ...
NASA is searching for four participants to join its second yearlong “Fake Mars” mission at Johnson Space Center, set to begin in spring 2025. Four people will spend a year inside Mars Dune Alpha, a 3D ...
If you’re going to go all the way to Mars, you might as well take in some sights along the way, or at least change up your course a little bit. Halfway through its eight-month journey to the “red ...
As fun as it would be to visit Mars, we wouldn't necessarily want to walk a mile in the Curiosity rover's shoes — or rather, its wheels. After landing in Mars' Gale Crater in 2012 and traveling some ...
Robert Zubrin, who has coauthored hundreds of papers and laid out several blueprints as to how to settle on Mars, told Agence France-Presse in an interview that Musk is “absolutely instrumental in ...
The planet Mars was bigger, brighter, and closer to the earth last week than it has been in 32 years. On Sept. 7 it passed within 35,200,000 miles. Not until 1971 will it come so close again. The ...
Visit Mars as it might have looked billions of years ago. Not frozen and dry, but wet, warm, and alive with flowing water. Across vast highlands near the Martian equator, deep river-like valleys snake ...