An artist's conception showing a planetary smash-up between a Moon-sized object and a Mercury-sized object. (NASA/JPL-Caltech ...
A new study suggests Mars could help scientists understand how alien worlds evolve by showing how a once warmer, wetter planet lost its atmosphere and crossed the edge of habitability.
NASA confirms that Mars has air, but its composition and extremely low pressure raise a far more serious question: could a human survive even a single breath on the Red Planet? As the agency pushes ...
For all the drama around getting to Mars, the harder question starts after landing. A person can step onto the planet with food, water and shelter plans in place, but none of that matters for long ...
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft just used Mars as a giant gravitational slingshot to continue its journey toward a strange metal rich asteroid. The close flyby boosted the spacecraft’s speed by about 1,000 ...