NASA also runs another, bigger simulated Mars habitat called the Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog, or CHAPEA. This 1,700-square-foot is large enough to sustain volunteers for up to a ...

NASA runs an alternate Mars analog called the CHAPEA habitat, or Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog, where volunteers spend over a year in the enclosed, Mars-like world. That habitat ...

Oct. 7, 2024 — NASA's Curiosity rover, currently exploring Gale crater on Mars, is providing new details about how the ancient Martian climate went from potentially suitable for life -- with ...

An enormous plume of magma is slowly but steadily rising underneath Mars and could one day provoke an eruption of the solar system's tallest volcano. An enormous plume of magma over a thousand ...

The discovery was made on the Red Planet's northern polar plains thanks to observations of Mars' gravity by NASA's Insight mission and other satellites in orbit. Map highlighting the dense ...

NASA plans to send humans on a scientific round trip to Mars potentially as early as 2035. The trip will take about six to seven months each way and will cover up to 250 million miles (402 million ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. The surface of Mars is a frigid and hostile place, but it wasn’t always like that.

Mars was once a watery world, with lakes, rivers and a shallow ocean similar to those on Earth. But somewhere between 2 billion and 3 billion years ago, the water dried up after severe climate change.

The five-year study was conducted by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Over two decades since NASA researchers first saw images of mysterious, spider-like formations across the southern hemisphere ...

Elon Musk took to X on Sunday to tell people that if they vote for Donald Trump, he’ll take them to Mars within several years—and if they vote for Kamala Harris, they can kiss a trip to outer ...

The red planet Mars, named for the Roman god of war, has long been an omen in the night sky. And in its own way, the planet’s rusty red surface tells a story of destruction. Billions of years ...

An astronomer at the U.S. Naval Observatory has developed a hypothesis to explain the unique shape and terrain of Mars. He suggests both are due to a long-lost moon. Michael Efroimsky has ...