This is a development log by a student engineer responsible for the driving system and video transmission of a Mars exploration rover. This is Episode 0, where I began building a simulator that allows ...

NASA will begin to decommission Maven, a Mars orbiter, which unexpectedly went silent in December 2025 after more than a decade of operations at the Red Planet. Credit: Lockheed Martin A healthy NASA ...

NASA has officially lost a decade-old Mars orbiter that performed vital scientific and communications work at the Red Planet. The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission, which launched ...

Where will humans go after Mars? Is Mars the end of the line or is it a steppingstone to somewhere else? If we “moon-to-Mars,” do we then “Mars-to-somewhere else?” These are curious questions that ...

A NASA spacecraft bound for an unusual metallic asteroid recently made a strategic flyby of Mars — and its cameras captured a rare perspective of the red planet along the way. The Psyche mission, ...

"This kind of terrain is common on Mars, and has been captured before by Mars Express," ESA officials said in the statement. Researchers believe huge quantities of groundwater likely burst onto the ...

A round trip from Earth to Mars takes about three years. New research suggests a potential shortcut to Mars, inspired by an asteroid's orbital path, that would reduce the journey to as little as 153 ...

A crewed expedition to Mars promises to push the absolute limits of human endurance. To grasp the sheer scale of the journey, consider our recent return to the Moon. When the Artemis II spacecraft ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has discovered more building blocks of life on Mars after carrying out a chemistry experiment never before conducted on another planet, scientists said Tuesday. The organic ...

Explore Mars colonization plans and current Mars missions, highlighting how global space agencies and private companies are preparing for future human settlements on the Red Planet. Pixabay, ...

Volcanoes on Mars may be more active than previously believed, according to data from NASA’s InSight mission. They also may be the reason why the Red Planet spins a little faster each year. Back in ...