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A couple of specific spots on the red planet in our Solar System, Mars, might just foster zones of interest after scientists deemed them potentially capabl
Part I of this article explained how a team from MIT has come up with a revolutionary new weight and cost-saving plan for a manned mission to Mars in which
In a recent study published in Science Advances, an international team of researchers led by the Paris Globe Institute of Physics estimate the amount o
NASA has been exploring the unknown terrains of the red planet with robotic rovers for almost two decades. The first to land was the Pathfinder rover in 19
Lockheed Martin, a global company worth billions of dollars that has a wide range of technical interests and capabilities, has announced that it plans to
You may have heard recently that NASA has been planning a mission to land on an asteroid, capture a bolder, and put it in orbit abound the Moon called the
Because Mars is a big area of interest right now, especially with NASA and SpaceX wanting to send people to the red planet within the next couple of decade
A recent study published in Nature attempts to examine a remarkable discovery regarding the existence of a molten silicate layer resting on top of the meta
When we think of going to Mars using a spacecraft with nuclear fusion engines, most of us think of science fiction, but according to Anthony Pancotti, who
The search for life on other planets is an age old quest. Astronomers, scientists, astronauts and regular backyard stargazers are always looking skyward fo
When we think of large mountains or volcanoes, we often think of Mount Everest, which holds the distinction as being the tallest mountain above sea lev
New research published in the journal Science Advances attempts to model the risk of cancer that astronauts will incur from exposure to galactic cosmic rad
Single-celled microbes that live beneath the floor of the ocean have provided insight into how scientists might be able to find life on Mars. Scientists ex
One of the major reasons why Mars is such a popular object to study in our Solar System is because scientists believe that it may have looked much differen