Oxygen isn’t just the stuff we breathe. Rocket propellant depends on oxygen, and future explorers will depend on producing propellant on Mars to make the trip home,” Jim Reuter, associate ...

Mars sits just outside the Sun's habitable zone. It doesn't have water. Or a magnetosphere - its atmosphere is incredibly thin. It's not a place you could settle into comfortably. On Mars, the 'air' ...

This marked Nuttycombe's second mission to simulated Mars -- where she first found her passion for improving spacesuit design. "We need our spacesuits to not be injuring our astronauts," she said.

American space agency NASA has begun studying the five samples of spacesuit material it sent over the Mars on the Perseverance rover ...

What can a NASA Mars rover teach us about the future development of astronaut spacesuits to Mars? This is what NASA’s Perseverance rover, which is currently exploring Jezero Crater on Mars, hopes to ...

Designing space suits for astronauts visiting Mars is a drastically different thing than designing suits for the Moon. We spoke to NASA to find out why.

Leaving Earth's gravity does weird things to the body. An Australian-designed spacesuit could be the key to taking humans to Mars — and making sure they can actually climb out of the space craft ...

NASA and MIT have made a box that converts the carbon-dioxide on Mars into breathable oxygen — a crucial advance if humans want to explore the planet one day.

If you tried to breathe on the surface of Mars without a spacesuit supplying your oxygen – bad idea – you would die in an instant.

Need to Test a Space Suit? Head to Iceland The country’s unearthly landscapes have caught the attention of scientists planning for future missions to Mars and the moon.

NASA Haughton-Mars Project / Pascal Lee Nearly 60 years ago, astronauts with the Apollo moon mission hiked around the lava beds of Central Oregon in their spacesuits for a real-world geology ...