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 ...

Now that the space program has reopened, NASA aims to launch astronauts to the moon in 2025 and to Mars by the late 2030s or early 2040s. Elon Musk predicts a crewed mission to Mars by 2029 and an ...

June 28, 2025: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.

What Mars can teach us about lifeIn this week’s episode of Space Minds David Ariosto sits down Nathalie Cabrol, Director of the Carl Sagan Center at the SETI Institute who explains why the Red ...

Scientists have created living communities of bacteria and fungi that could survive in protective habitats on the Red Planet.

Gypsum deposits formed on Mars could conceal evidence of past life on the planet — microbes similar to the first life that formed on Earth four billion years ago. But to test this hypothesis, we need ...

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' ...

NASA Odyssey orbiter snapped a first-ever image of a Mars volcano peeking above clouds before dawn. It’s twice as tall as Earth’s largest volcano.

Mars orbiter that launched from Florida captures 1st-ever pic of volcano above clouds Known as Arsia Mons, the volcano on Mars dwarfs Earth’s tallest volcano, Mauna Loa in Hawaii.