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

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 ...

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

Semiconductors designed for spacecraft face a range of extreme conditions that impact aging. A reliable source of power is also needed.

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.

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

These propulsion systems rely on solar power (or another ... and magnetic field structure around Mars and how it interacts with extreme ultraviolet (EUV) radiation from the sun.

On Mars, which has a thin atmosphere (less than 1% of Earth's) and no ozone layer, about 30% more damaging UV radiation reaches the surface. However, numerical modeling predicts ice and snow ...

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 ...

A new NASA and Toho University study, utilizing supercomputers, projects Earth's habitability timeline, revealing the ...