A realistic spacesuit in National Geographic's "Mars" series, designed by Daniela Ciancio. (Image credit: Jamal Countess / Stringer / Getty Images) ...

What will a Mars spacesuit look like in the future? To maximize an explorer's productivity on the Red Planet, different types of suits are needed from those used by Apollo moonwalkers, experts said.

Say you’re going to Mars for 500 days. Your spacesuit is now your work coveralls. My Gramps was a farmer, he had coveralls he put on every day and that was his work uniform.

To test out spacesuit materials on Mars, NASA scientists have come up with an ingenious plan. The Perseverance rover, which will explore the planet and is being launched this summer, ...

The space suit is torn between humanity's two chief desires: exploration and protection. None more so than the one some of us will be wearing on Mars—which could determine astronauts' survival ...

NASA chose to send to Mars a piece of polycarbonate helmet visor, a cut-resistant material used for the palms of astronaut gloves called Vectran, two bits of Teflon with dust-repelling properties ...

It takes Dr Gernot Groomer three hours to put on the spacesuit he hopes will, one day, walk across the surface of Mars. It’s worth taking time when you’re wearing a suit made from roughly ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — When scientists are trying to figure out how to live in near-isolation in a dome to simulate a Mars mission, the last thing they’ll need is an ill-fitting space suit. So one ...

NASA's Perseverance rover landed on Mars in 2021 to search for signs of ancient microbial life and to help scientists understand the planet's climate and geography. But another key objective is to ...

This Spacesuit for Exploring Mars Is a Form-Fitting Math Problem. For a mission to Mars to succeed, off-world explorers desperately need a new wardrobe to deal with the planet's unique challenges.

Mars P.D. will have to deal with new blood-spatter patterns, different body decay rates, and space-suit sabotage—and they won’t be able to fire guns indoors.