Mars is no longer just a story about a single lost ocean or one fleeting window for biology. Taken together, recent rover ...

4:56 About two-and-a-half hours before the engine firing, commands are sent to fire small onboard thrusters to "desaturate" or unload the momentum of the spinning reaction wheels. These devices are ...

A Southwest Research Institute scientist has updated Mars chronology models to find that terrains shaped by ancient water activity on the planet’s surface may be hundreds of millions of years older ...

Life on Earth might not be as Earthly as we think. A recent research published in The Conversation explores a revived and ...

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Elon Musk is hell-bent on colonizing Mars. That's the spirit with which he founded SpaceX, his rocket company, in 2002. Musk was frustrated that NASA wasn't doing more to get people to the red planet ...

First crewed mission depends on uncrewed mission success Musk's timelines for Mars missions have changed frequently Previous timeline was five years for uncrewed mission, seven for crewed NASA delayed ...

Speaking to SpaceX employees in Texas, Musk described the goal of sending humans to Mars as essential “for the long term survival of civilization." Under his vision, humans would not just step on the ...