NASA’s Mars Dune Alpha is a full-scale habitat designed to simulate life on Mars and test human endurance for future missions ...

Recently, the rover has discovered that Mars' atmosphere is electrically active, because it found electrical discharges. The ...

NASA is sending two spacecraft to Mars on their new ESCAPADE mission to reveal how space weather robbed it of its atmosphere and turned it dry ...

Researchers have documented 55 instances of "mini lightning" over two Martian years by eavesdropping on the whirling wind ...

However, the most interesting equipment to be deployed in the future has to be the robodog. Called the Legged Autonomous ...

Curiosity was built by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is managed by Caltech in Pasadena, California. JPL leads the mission on behalf of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The ...

Mary Roeloffs is a Forbes breaking news reporter covering pop culture. NASA has cited federal budget concerns as the reason for pumping the brakes on its Mars Sample Return mission meant to bring ...

It's been a long time coming, but Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin space company finally entered the select group of organizations that have contributed, to some degree, to a Mars mission. That's after the ...

Europe’s long-awaited Mars rover mission has received a significant boost, with NASA confirming it will supply several ...

Missions carrying humans to Mars will require on-site resources, and a project led by Planetary Science Institute (PSI) scientists Nathaniel Putzig and Gareth Morgan is mapping the availability of ...

Tracking the first astronauts’ visit to Mars won’t be as simple as watching a clock or marking days off of a calendar. Thanks ...