NASA has launched the Mars to Table Challenge, seeking Earth-independent food systems capable of sustaining astronauts on ...

Leading US scientists and engineers have published a 200-page report, "A Science Strategy for the Human Exploration of Mars," arguing for investing resources in visiting our most promising neighbor ...

Robots are already rewriting the script for Mars. While human crews remain grounded by medical, political, and financial limits, machines have quietly turned the Red Planet into a testbed for long ...

As NASA fosters technologies needed to live and work farther away from home than ever before, the agency’s Technology Transfer program.

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What innovative rovers can be developed to advance Mars surface exploration? This is what a recent study presented at the Joint Meeting of the Europlanet Science Congress and the Division for ...

When astronauts set foot on Mars, it will be one of humanity’s greatest milestones. These first steps will be the result of decades of research, engineering, and imagination coming together, marking ...

The United States walked away from the Moon just as it seemed to master it, then spent decades sketching ever more ambitious paths to Mars that never quite left the drawing board. The shift was not a ...

After a picture-perfect launch of twin Escapade spacecraft bound for Mars, Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket aced landing on a recovery vessel floating in the Atlantic, helping power a revolution in ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — As humanity prepares to take its first steps on Mars, a comprehensive report released today (Dec. 9) from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and ...