Mars's atmosphere and climate are impacted by interactions with solar wind, a stream of plasma comprised of protons and ...
The Mars Sample Return mission has been ranked as the highest priority by planetary scientists, who hope to find signs of ...
A switch to Mars would impact programs such as the moon-focused Space Launch System, a multibillion-dollar rocket that ...
NASA's Ingenuity helicopter, which flew on Mars in April 2021, became the first aircraft to achieve powered, controlled flight on a planet other than Earth.
NASA's beleaguered Mars Sample Return program currently faces extreme costs of up to $11 billion and a timeline that could ...
The solar system consists of 8 planets, including Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Each planet has its own unique characteristics, such as size, composition ...
The company has outlined its proposed architecture to return martian rock and dust samples to Earth for research.
Ingenuity, NASA’s Mars Helicopter, surpassed expectations as the first aircraft to operate on another planet. Despite being designed for five test flights over 30 days, it completed 72 flights across ...
We're hurtling toward a new era of mega-rockets with enough power to send colonists to the red planet, but should we?
Mars has northern and southern hemispheres like Earth, but their defining characteristics are markedly different, a ...
NASA's Mars Sample Return mission, aimed at analyzing Martian rock samples collected by the Perseverance rover, faces a ...