Musk—who has a history of setting unrealized goals for his companies—says he wants to send humans to Mars by 2029, though he ...
NASA’s Perseverance rover recently captured a stunning image of a black-and-white striped rock on Mars, sparking excitement ...
Scientists have identified another possible commonality between Earth and Mars: a solid inner core. Scientists have ...
More than 3 billion years ago, Mars intermittently had liquid water on its surface. After the planet lost much of its ...
The north pole of Mars is slowly sinking under the weight of an ice cap that only formed within the past few million years. And, in the process, it's telling us something about what the planet's ...
Scientists have considered placing Mylar disks, with a diameter of 155 miles and a weight of 200,000 tons, to reflect sunlight onto Mars and heat the surface. The idea is that over many years ...
Mars’ thick crust may have been a hidden engine of geological activity, producing granitic magmas and sustaining underground ...
A University of Manchester PhD student has developed a prototype flexible heat shield for spacecraft that could reduce the cost of space travel and even aid future space missions to Mars. Heat shields ...