In NASA's current missions, medical risks are manageable. There's the opportunity for emergency evacuations, real-time communications, and the ability to send samples to Earth. However, long-term ...
One of the best parts about sending rovers like Perseverance to other planets, is sometimes they send back some absolutely ...
Mars is an inhospitable desert planet. Billions of years ago, things were different. In Jezero Crater, for example, fed by a ...
Spaceflight rewires the human body. Muscles shrink, bones thin and fluids shift towards the brain – but these changes may ...
NASA has announced plans to procure a new communications satellite that would orbit Mars and transmit data to and from the Red Planet. The proposed price tag is $700 million, representing close to 4% ...
A NASA study shows bacteria fragments can survive 50 million years in Martian ice. Pure ice, not rock, could hold clues to life beyond Earth.
Mars has two permanent polar ice caps of water ice and some dry ice, and a few patches of ice both on and under the surface.