Scientists believe modern technology to be crucial in 'supporting sustained missions' on Mars.

Mars has an active, electrically charged surface where dust storms and spinning dust devils regularly move and reshape the landscape. Mars is often portrayed as a dry, empty world, but the planet is ...

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Until recently, Mars was studied only through telescopes and some data that was recorded from early spacecraft. It was thought that Mars' polar regions were the only significant reservoirs of ice, ...

Advances in synthetic biology, planetary engineering, and ultra-low-cost launch systems have dramatically altered how researchers view Mars terraforming. Once seen as an impossible sci-fi fantasy, ...

Beneath the surface of Mars lie an array of mysterious "blobs" that might hold clues about the earliest days of our solar system. NASA's InSight Lander discovered the dense lumps scattered through the ...

Scientists from New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) have uncovered new evidence that water once flowed beneath the surface of Mars, revealing that the planet may have remained habitable for life ...

Even though the Red Planet's atmosphere is thin, wind is still one of Mars' most relentless sculptors.