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 ...
As humanity prepares to take its first steps on Mars, a comprehensive report released by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and steered by scientists at Penn State lays out ...
In 2015, ESA astronaut Tim Peake carried rocket seeds to the International Space Station, launching a groundbreaking research ...
Martian helicopters might seem like a sci-fi concept, as Mars' atmosphere isn't friendly to aircraft. But actually, the idea ...
A swarm of spherical rovers, blown by the wind like tumbleweeds, could enable large-scale and low-cost exploration of the Martian surface, according to results presented at the Joint Meeting of the ...
In 1976, NASA's Viking landers conducted soil tests on Mars to search for signs of life. The Labeled Release experiment observed the evolution of radioactive gas following nutrient addition, which ...
Four volunteers are set to leave a simulated Mars habitat that they've been living in since June of last year. NASA is concluding a yearlong Mars mission experiment — and four volunteers are set to ...
Key leadership roles in a major National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report released in December were filled by University of Florida faculty affiliated with the Astraeus Space ...
WASHINGTON — The search for past or present life should be the top science objective of future human missions to Mars, a new National Academies report concludes.