When Does NASA Think We'll Go To Mars? It's Sooner Than You Think

NASA has plans to send astronauts to Mars surprisingly soon, but their exact timeline is still rather vague for a number of ...

SpaceX delays Mars plans to focus on Moon

Elon Musk’s rocket company had aimed to reach the red planet in 2026 ...

NASA's Curiosity rover is doing an incredibly rare experiment on Mars

After the Red Planet reemerged from conjunction — a period when NASA doesn't communicate with spacecraft because Mars is ...

NASA faces a crucial choice on a Mars spacecraft—and it must decide soon

What everyone agrees on is that NASA needs a new spacecraft capable of relaying communications from Mars to Earth. This issue ...
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This Photo of Mars at Night Is Straight Up Haunting

It would really suck to be all alone on Mars at night. The post This Photo of Mars at Night Is Straight Up Haunting appeared ...
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Could a toxic chemical in Mars dirt help us build a Red Planet base?

Perchlorate, a toxic substance found in Mars dirt, could help the bacterium Sporosarcina pasteurii strengthen bonds between particles of regolith.
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A NASA spacecraft orbiting Mars may be dead

For nearly a month, NASA has been scrambling to make contact with a spacecraft in orbit around Mars that abruptly fell silent. The space agency lost communication with the MAVEN probe (short for Mars ...

OTD In Space - January 25: Opportunity Rover Lands on Mars

On January 25, 2004, NASA's Opportunity rover landed on Mars! This was the second of NASA's twin Mars Exploration Rovers to land on the red planet. Its counterpart, the Spirit rover, arrived just ...