Researchers show algae can grow in Mars-like atmospheric pressure conditions. If humans are ever to establish permanent ...

Mars has long captured humanity’s imagination, especially given the tantalizing evidence of ancient river valleys and ...

"Past climates with surface and shallow-subsurface liquid water are recorded by Mars's sedimentary rocks, including strata in the approximately 4-kilometer-thick [circa 2.5 miles thick] record at Gale ...

As the administration slashes spending on science, NASA is running low on new missions.

Mars has lost immense amounts of water over it lifetime, and scientists aren't sure exactly how. New research hints that the ...

The discovery of more than 15,000 kilometers of ancient riverbeds on Mars suggests that the Red Planet may once have been ...

If we're to land humans on Mars in the coming decades, we'll have to know what challenges await them when they get there.

Researchers at Harvard University have made an exciting discovery that could change the future of space colonization. In an innovative experiment, scientists have successfully grown green algae in ...

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has learned to pull off daring 120-degree rolls that give its SHARAD radar ...

In 2014, Texas start-up ALLVAR tweaked a titanium-niobium recipe so the atoms form a crystal lattice that bends like a wine-rack. Warm the alloy and the “rack” folds inward, shortening the bar.

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