Elon Musk wants to turn one of humanity’s biggest problems into the fuel for its boldest journey. Instead of treating carbon ...

For years, scientists have puzzled over how Mars lost the thick atmosphere it once had. That atmosphere was essential for liquid water to exist on the planet’s surface, billions of years ago. Today, ...

No Mars Retrograde in 2026 — What Does It Mean? Mars is a planet that propels us into action. When it goes retrograde, our energy often turns inward, making us hesitant or unmotivated. But in 2026, ...

Engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) confirmed signal lock with Perseverance first, followed by Curiosity and the ...

The discovery suggests that parts of Mars may once have supported tropical-like climates, complete with heavy, sustained rainfall.

The moment you've all been waiting for his here! Mars retrograde is finally over, officially coming to an end on Feb. 23 when our Red Planet stations direct in Cancer at 17 degrees. At this time, life ...

SpaceX needs to rapidly develop a new, scaled-down version of its Starship to transport U.S. astronauts to the Moon's South Pole by 2028 and help NASA win the future-shaping Space Race II, says a ...

We were as excited as anyone when MARSIS (the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding) experiment announced there was possibly liquid water under the southern polar ice cap. If ...

The Mars Curiosity rover discovered decane, undecane, and dodecane—the largest organic molecules yet identified on Mars—within the Cumberland rock sample from Gale Crater's Yellowknife Bay, a presumed ...

Bypassing the moon and sending crews straight to Mars would be a serious error. Credit: NASA We’ve observed with concern a rising trend in human spaceflight ...

On Episode 153 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Robert Zubrin, founder and president of The Mars Society, about making real, actionable plans to send a crew to Mars. In 1990, ...