He also promised that the US will "reach Mars" before the end of his second term, should he be re-elected, and pledged "no men in women's sports". Shortly after Mr Trump started speaking ...

My hope and passion is to assist in designing the nuclear thermal propulsion engine that will take a crewed mission to Mars. Conventional chemical propulsion systems use a chemical reaction ...

Over that time, it’s covered 20.13 miles and while that might not sound like very far, the surface of Mars has wrought havoc on the little craft’s wheels. While driving over the rocky ...

It symobilizes a website link url. Copy Link Elon Musk has set out his latest timeline for getting humans to Mars, and experts say it's a classic SpaceX move. The SpaceX founder said in a recent ...

At age 53, Musk is not yet an old man. But the clock is ticking on his stated goal of reaching Mars and building a city there in his lifetime or, at least, his working lifetime. Such pressure is ...

Help us keep bring these critical stories to light. Your support makes all the difference. When Mars lost its atmosphere billions of years ago, it transformed from a planet that could have ...

Amid the mundane pebbly terrain of Mars' surface, NASA's Perseverance rover recently spotted something remarkable: a strange, striped object the agency is now calling the "zebra rock ...

Researchers from MIT suggest that Mars’ once thick atmosphere may be trapped within the planet’s vast clay deposits, potentially storing significant amounts of carbon dioxide as methane. This ...

Where exactly did Mars' atmosphere go? This question has been a central mystery of Mars' 4.6-billion-year history. For two MIT geologists, the answer may lie in the planet's clay. In a paper ...

New research suggests the atmosphere of Mars may be hiding in plain sight, having been absorbed by minerals in the Red Planet's clays. If Mars' envelope of gas did "go to ground" over 3 billion ...

NASA's Perseverance rover found an odd zebra-striped rock while exploring Jezero Crater on Mars in September 2024. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / ASU On Mars, some 120 million miles away in space ...

Nasa's Perseverance rover has made plenty of discoveries since it first touched down on Mars three years ago, but its latest find has really surprised scientists. Last week, the rover spotted a ...