A technology originally developed to help humans use local resources on Mars is now being used on Earth to recover carbon dioxide for breweries and other industries. According to NASA, systems created ...

What does the next generation of martian exploration look like? The answer, quite literally, is blowing in the wind. The Tumbleweed Mars rover, a spherical robot designed to roll across the martian ...

When astronauts set foot on Mars, it will be one of humanity’s greatest milestones. These first steps will be the result of decades of research, engineering, and imagination coming together, marking ...

NASA has plans to send astronauts to Mars surprisingly soon, but their exact timeline is still rather vague for a number of different reasons.

From a modest tech demo to a historical Martian scout, Ingenuity changed space exploration forever. Here is the story behind ...

This view of NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter was generated using data collected by the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard the agency’s Perseverance Mars rover on Aug. 2, 2023, the 871st Martian day, or sol, ...

Andy Weir's bestselling story "The Martian" predicts that by 2035 NASA will have landed humans on Mars three times, perfected return-to-Earth flight systems and collaborated with the China National ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Researching other planets requires a lot of earthbound travel, taking Ali Bramson, an associate professor in Purdue University’s College of Science, from snowy slopes in Iceland ...

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin has landed a $700 million NASA contract that could play a major role in the future of Mars exploration. The company will develop a new telecommunications orbiter capable of ...

Since Viking 1 landed in 1976, humans have studied Mars from afar, relying on rovers and orbiters to analyze the planet. But with NASA planning a human mission as early as the 2030s, that will soon ...