Missions to the moon or Mars could get more sustainable life support from a chemical reaction that turns the carbon dioxide exhaled by astronauts into carbon nanotubes and water – which is then ...

American space exploration company Sierra Space announced it reached a point where it can fly an oxygen extractor to the Moon ...

Stunning new images from the ExoMars orbiter reveal ancient salt deposits on Mars, even forming a smiley face.

Running those numbers, Clarke and his co-authors estimate that of the mile-deep layer of water that may once have been the ...

The ChemCam instrument, developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory, recently zapped its laser for the 1 millionth time on ...

The oxygen in water ends up either oxidizing materials on the surface (hence, why Mars appears rust-red) or bonding with carbon to form carbon dioxide. Meanwhile, the hydrogen atoms (or their ...

Elon Musk said on X that he envisions Starships making uncrewed trips to Mars by 2026 before astronauts head to the Red ...

Mars does not have a magnetosphere. Any discussion of humans ever settling the red planet can stop right there, but of course ...

If you were standing on Mars as it was hit by a solar flare, you might be able to see an aurora just like on Earth ...

The Polaris Dawn mission made history with the first private spacewalk by two private citizens and exposed the entire crew of ...

The instrument "zaps" rocks on Mars's surface with a laser and collects the light created ... The former indicates there may have been more oxygen in the planet's atmosphere at one point, while boron ...

Elon Musk recently announced that SpaceX plans to launch its first uncrewed Starships to Mars in two years, during the next ...