Reaching Mars is no simple feat. While the idea of sending humans to the Red Planet is gaining traction, the journey itself ...

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Robert Zubrin, the planet’s leading strategist for landing humans on Mars, predicts SpaceX’s Starship will win the race to speed astronauts to Mars, but not until 2031.

How's the weather up there? On Mars, weather forecasts haven't always been right at our fingertips. Now, recent research from ...

Musk’s SpaceX, founded to make humanity a multiplanetary species, is betting heavily on its prototype Starship rocket for a future Mars mission. Trump has also tapped private astronaut and e-payments ...

Those tiny colorful dinosaur toys that grow bigger underwater might hold the key to protecting astronauts as they journey through space.

A new study by researchers including those at the University of Tokyo revealed that atmospheric gravity waves play a crucial ...

These studies show that Mars is bombarded by meteorites far more often than previously thought — about 2.5 times more ...

Mars' atmosphere moves differently from Earth's due to gravity waves. These waves affect air circulation at high altitudes.

If Mars ever hosted microorganisms in its bygone oceans, their fossils might still be preserved in minerals—and now, we have ...

The most significant change since those 1970's experiments were conducted was the discovery of high levels of perchlorate on Mars. Perchlorate, plus abiotic oxidants, explains the Viking results and ...

A new study by researchers including those at the University of Tokyo revealed that atmospheric gravity waves play a crucial ...