Scientists use Bengaluru soil bacteria and guar gum to develop eco-friendly bio-cemented bricks for Mars and low-carbon construction on Earth.

The Perseverance rover is continuing its mission to find clues about the geological past of Mars. The rover’s main goals are ...

What everyone agrees on is that NASA needs a new spacecraft capable of relaying communications from Mars to Earth. This issue has become especially acute with the recent loss of NASA’s MAVEN ...

Bright white rocks found by NASA’s Perseverance rover hint at ancient Martian rain lasting millions of years, raising new questions about how wet Mars once was and what those conditions might mean.

Bacteria that thrive on Earth may not make it in the alien lands of Mars. A potential deterrent is perchlorate, a toxic ...

The research, led by scientists at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), has been published in the peer-reviewed journal ...

Advances in technology have reopened the debate over terraforming Mars, shifting it from an impossible dream to a long-term scientific and ethical question.

Bill Nye let a packed crowd at the Orange Convention Center know that it’s not a good idea to send a human on a one-way trip to Mars. “Although there’s a few I wouldn’t mind,” he said earning another ...

Mars may have been a "blue planet" with an ocean the size of today's Arctic Ocean, a new study suggests.

This doesn’t mean Mars causes ice ages on its own. Orbital cycles are only part of the picture. Earth’s oceans, atmosphere, ...

A pull in the right direction ...

Advances in synthetic biology, planetary engineering, and ultra-low-cost launch systems have dramatically altered how ...