Before humans set foot on Mars, NASA must first understand how people can survive there. In the Mars Dune Alpha mission, astronauts live inside a simulated habitat designed to mimic the challenges of ...

Instruments like the those currently on the Red Planet were used to study samples collected from an 'Mars-like' area in Chile ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The best reason to send humans to Mars isn’t for guts or glory—or the construction of colonies to safeguard against existential ...

NASA's Perseverance robot, depicted here landing on the Martian dunes, used its cutting-edge cameras to image what could be the first evidence of life ever detected on Mars, opening the possibility ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA has found potential signs of life on Mars, the agency said last Wednesday. Although additional scientific study is needed in ...

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover took this selfie on July 23, 2024, the 1,218th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. To the left of the rover near the center of the image is the arrowhead-shaped rock ...

A few weeks ago, the rover Perseverance found potential signs of life on Mars. Again. I’m getting tired of scientists getting so worked up about potential life on Mars. First, it was potential signs ...

NASA has long been searching for definitive signs of life on Mars, and it seems like NASA’s Perseverance rover has found the clearest signs yet in the form of some green, blue, black, and white dots ...

The search for life on Mars dates back about five decades, and a Sept. 10 announcement marks perhaps the most dramatic advancement yet. The news: NASA's Perseverance rover had found potential signs of ...

Scientists propose using ice as a building material for Mars habitats, offering protection from radiation while allowing daylight inside.