Elon Musk has never been shy (or quiet) about thinking big. Electric cars, reusable rockets, neural brain tech — all part of ...

While NASA aims to land humans on Mars by the 2030s, one challenge stands out - radiation. The Red Planet lacks a magnetic field and thick atmosphere, leaving future astronauts exposed to galactic ...

Mars, today a cold, irradiated, and dry world, once had a much warmer and wetter environment. The planet was covered by lakes, rivers, and even an ocean in its northern hemisphere. The latest research ...

Elon Musk is taking the long view. The billionaire SpaceX founder has long said that humanity needs to expand its footprint ...

If future Mars colonizers want to survive without pressure suits, they’ll need to generate a denser atmosphere. One way to achieve this could be to bombard the Red Planet with water-rich asteroids.

Whether anything ever lived on Mars is unknown. And the present environment, with harsh temperatures, intense radiation, and ...

Specifically, researchers have identified for the first time an organism capable of maintaining metabolic activity in a ...

A new study from Toho University in Japan, supported by NASA’s advanced modeling, has unveiled a scary prediction about the ...

In those drill sites, Curiosity detected deposits containing an iron carbonate material called siderite. According to Ben Tutolo, a University of Calgary associate professor of Earth, Energy, and ...

But the biggest barrier to life on Mars is the lack of a strong magnetic field, which protects against the constant bombardment of ionizing radiation from cosmic rays and solar flares, which can ...

In a major announcement that stirred both the tech and space communities, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has laid out an ambitious plan ...