For centuries, mankind has wanted to go to Mars. But the costs to go there are huge, the fuel has to last for months, and not anybody would be willing to spend years away from Earth. To make things worse, ...

Mars is the place of hope for many astronomers. It’s very far away for us: the average distance is roughly 54 million kilometers. But the distance is nothing for the unfathomable distances that traverse the Universe. What’s for sure is ...

Under the oversight and safety of the Israeli Space Agency, a team of six – five men and one woman – have begun simulating what it will be like to live for about a month on the red planet. Underneath ...

We often hear about comparisons between Mars and Earth, but the differences between the two planets go beyond the fact that one has life and the other doesn’t (or at least that’s the official status.) A recent study claims that ...

Recently acquired data from late September 1 from NASA’s Perseverance rover is proof that the team reached its goal of obtaining a Mars rock. The initial images received after the amazing event depict a well-captured sample within the tube after ...

Mars, the fourth planet from the sun and Earth’s closest planetary neighbor, has a relatively thin atmosphere and no magnetic field to protect it from radiation. That makes Martian weather much more extreme than that of Earth. Mars is bombarded ...

Mars is not what you would expect an alien planet to be like. It has a thick atmosphere with much carbon dioxide, but it also has water ice at its poles and an unexplored interior with pockets of very intense ...

Mars has become the dream destination for many astronomers in recent years. Although humans probably won’t get the chance to move there, at least in the next decades or centuries, sending spacecraft on the Red Planet to gather as much ...

Our dusty planetary neighbor, Mars, has a bare and stark landscape. You may think that there’s nothing there to see, but recent data unveil something odd yet stunning. Seeing a volcanic plain pierced with impact craters is genuinely intriguing and ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has detected tiny traces of methane on Mars several times in recent years. The emission could come from a geological process, but so far, scientists couldn’t really solve the mystery. What’s more intriguing is that Mars’ atmosphere ...