Mars

After a prolonged period of radio silence, NASA has successfully regained contact with the resilient Ingenuity Mars Helicopter.  The small rotorcraft, which arrived on the Red Planet alongside the Perseverance rover earlier this year,…

NASA has embarked on an unprecedented mission by selecting four volunteers to live in a 1,700-square-foot, 3D-printed habitat at Johnson Space Center in Houston for the next 378 days. These individuals will experience challenges and…

The difficulty of feeding astronauts nutritious food as NASA gears up for upcoming Mars missions becomes critical. For long-duration space travel, NASA and the Canadian Space Agency established the Deep Space Food Challenge and invited…

The 20th anniversary of the launch of the first Mars probe was lavishly commemorated by the European Space Agency (ESA). The European Space Agency (ESA) broadcast the first-ever livestream from Mars, sending images from its Mars Express…

In April 2019, the Ingenuity chopper broke new ground when it informed NASA scientists on Earth about its first flight—the first powered, controlled flight on another planet. However, as of late, the Mars helicopter has only occasionally…

Mars may have more water than previously believed, according to studies of sand dunes conducted by the Chinese Zhurong rover. The discovery suggests new, possibly productive locations in Mars' warmer zones where life could live, but…

The first-ever detection of seismic waves traveling through Mars' core provides scientists with important new information on the red planet. The InSight lander picked up seismic waves from a marsquake and a meteor strike, both on…

Among the rover's other discoveries are rippling rock patterns, which show lakes occurred in an area of ancient Mars that scientists expected to be drier. Scientists assumed they'd seen the last evidence of lakes covering this region of…