This is what Mr Musk said he wanted to do last year. Then it seemed barely plausible. Today it looks next to impossible. Mr ...

Martian lake beds and deltas reveal the Red Planet’s watery past. But many puzzles remain, scientist Bruce Jakosky says.

NASA’s Curiosity rover has unearthed the largest organic molecules ever detected on Mars—possible fragments of fatty ...

Martian dust could threaten astronaut health and equipment, with toxic particles causing lung damage and mission failures.

SpaceX chief Elon Musk is fixated on sending manned missions to Mars and he wants the humanity to colonise the red planet in the coming decades.

3D printers will make the tools, structures and habitats space pioneers need to survive in a hostile alien environment. They ...

Robert Zubrin, the planet’s leading strategist for landing humans on Mars, predicts SpaceX’s Starship will win the race to ...

The violence in the coastal heartland of the Alawite community, to which the ousted president belongs, has threatened to throw into chaos the country's fragile transition after decades of the ...

The following year, after a promotion, Zabrodskaya began working on Mars’ Sheba cat food brand. She said she did not believe the company could substantiate its claim to be committed to “100% s ...

This finding challenges our current understanding of Mars as a perpetually cold, dry world. The team found more than 4,000 of these white rocks and pebbles scattered across the Martian surface.

After the presentations there will be a Q&A session to delve deeper into discussions about exploration of our neighbouring Red Planet. How do 'robots' assist us exploring Mars? Are human missions ...

A crewed mission to and from Mars may include an exciting array of enabling biotechnologies that leverage inherent mass, power, and volume advantages over traditional abiotic approaches. In this ...