Living on Mars will be no easy feat. Building viable living quarters would require an inflatable habitat that can be covered ...

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The simulated environment at Airbus is used to test robots destined for space missions. The Airbus Mars Yard was built in 2013 and includes a control room and an area 30 x 13m of Mars-like surface.

For centuries, we have been gazing into space with fascination, dreaming of travelling to distant planets. To make these ...

"The principles are the same," Partansky says, reflecting on his NASA experience. "Whether it's a robot on Mars or one in a cannabis facility, the focus is on precision, scalability and problem ...

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson left a final decision on a new mission architecture to the next NASA administrator working ...

From arachnid-like formations and mysterious blobs to an underground ocean and a giant volcano, here are our 10 favorite things scientists discovered on Mars this year.

We’re long past the stage of imagining the inhabitants of Mars as little green men. But as we explore the red planet, what kind of life might we find there? NASA scientists think life on Mars mi ...

NASA unveils a groundbreaking approach to bring Martian rock samples back to Earth by 2026, introducing competition between ...

A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get them back to Earth.

Researchers at NASA Langley are developing a next-gen system called MARVL (Modular Assembled Radiators for Nuclear Electric ...