This has been a most interesting year to follow Mars. If you've been monitoring the Red Planet since the start of 2025, you have no doubt noted the dramatic change in its brightness as well as the ...

NASA's CHAPEA mission was a 378-day Mars simulation in a habitat in Houston. Scientists want to know what challenges astronauts will face on Mars, including extreme isolation. Crew member Ross ...

NASA is searching for four participants to join its second yearlong “Fake Mars” mission at Johnson Space Center, set to begin in spring 2025. Four people will spend a year inside Mars Dune Alpha, a 3D ...

When humanity eventually conquers Mars, the Red Planet will open up many amazing places for future tourists to explore.

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson said he doesn’t think Elon Musk’s vision for space travel to Mars is realistic during a Friday night episode of HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher“. “I don’t see it ...

Visit Mars as it might have looked billions of years ago. Not frozen and dry, but wet, warm, and alive with flowing water. Across vast highlands near the Martian equator, deep river-like valleys snake ...

As fun as it would be to visit Mars, we wouldn't necessarily want to walk a mile in the Curiosity rover's shoes — or rather, its wheels. After landing in Mars' Gale Crater in 2012 and traveling some ...

The planet Mars was bigger, brighter, and closer to the earth last week than it has been in 32 years. On Sept. 7 it passed within 35,200,000 miles. Not until 1971 will it come so close again. The ...

Robert Zubrin, who has coauthored hundreds of papers and laid out several blueprints as to how to settle on Mars, told Agence France-Presse in an interview that Musk is “absolutely instrumental in ...