One part of this plan would require increasing the planet’s atmospheric pressure, and one scientist suggests that capturing ...

A Harvard scientist's bizarre theory that an ancient Martian civilisation was wiped out by a nuclear attack is gaining fresh ...

In the coming decades, missions to explore Mars will determine whether the Red Planet is fit for human beings to […] ...

Multiple plans exist to explore Mars in the coming decades using robotic and crewed missions. The ultimate goal of these ...

Mars has a much thinner atmosphere than Earth, made up mostly of CO2. But getting an asteroid from the Oort Cloud to Mars is a journey that would take roughly 15,000 years with current technology.

The Perseverance rover has found some intriguing samples on the red planet. Here's what they might reveal about the origins ...

In his lecture, Levine noted, the United States is planning a human mission to Mars that may begin as early as 2035. The ...

Mars orbits at an average distance of 142 million miles (228 million km) from the sun. Its orbit is about 1.5 times the size of Earth's. Sunlight takes about 13 minutes to get to Mars, while it ...