NASA’s long search for liquid water on Mars has produced its most significant result yet: evidence of vast reservoirs buried ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover produced breathable oxygen on Mars on April 20, 2021, marking the first time humans manufactured a ...

Using high-resolution imagery from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the AI analyzed the bedrock and boulder fields. It processed the same data humans use, but it worked faster, stringing together ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has just made history by driving across Mars using routes planned by artificial intelligence instead of human operators. A vision-capable AI analyzed the same images and ...

In 2024, NASA awarded Rocket Lab another contract to study alternative concepts for the Mars Sample Return, which aimed to bring samples collected by the Perseverance rover back to Earth. That mission ...

What innovative rovers can be developed to advance Mars surface exploration? This is what a recent study presented at the Joint Meeting of the Europlanet Science Congress and the Division for ...

SpaceX has shifted its space exploration strategy, prioritising the creation of a human settlement on the Moon before turning ...

Like Earth, Mars is surrounded by an ionosphere—the part of its upper atmosphere where radiation from the sun knocks electrons off of atoms and molecules, creating charged particles. The Martian ...

(Nanowerk News) The report, commissioned by NASA, identifies the highest priority scientific objectives for the missions as well as proposes four distinct mission campaigns designed to maximize the ...

When astronauts set foot on Mars, it will be one of humanity’s greatest milestones. These first steps will be the result of decades of research, engineering, and imagination coming together, marking ...