An illustration of a SpaceX "BFR" spaceship, a precursor to Starship, at a notional future lunar base from a 2017 speech by Elon Musk Credit: SpaceX WASHINGTON — A little more than a year after ...

The key to solving the mystery of the Viking results is the discovery of perchlorate on the Martian surface in 2008. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

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Bright white rocks spotted by NASA’s Perseverance rover are rewriting what we thought we knew about ancient Mars. These aluminum-rich clays, called kaolinite, usually form on Earth only after millions ...

Scientists believe these rocks were formed by ancient rainfall, similar to how they form in tropical climates on Earth. The discovery adds to the evidence that Mars may have once been a habitable ...

STARBASE, Texas — During a presentation, SpaceX CEO and founder Elon Musk shared how he plans to use Starship to reach the planet Mars, and how in a few short years, there is a chance humans could ...

What role does imagination play in exploring realms beyond Earth? Imagining the human exploration of Mars depends on creative inquiry across the arts, sciences, and engineering, where speculation is ...

The Red Planet may have once been half blue. A sea the size of Earth’s Arctic Ocean blanketed part of Mars about three billion years ago, researchers suggest in a study published January 7 in the ...

SpaceX has quietly redrawn its near-term roadmap, slowing its push toward Mars so it can concentrate on getting astronauts to the Moon first. The shift does not abandon the company’s long-stated ...

Elon Musk revealed that his rocket-launch firm SpaceX is now focused on building a “self-growing city” of humans on the moon – backing away from his plans to launch a civilization on Mars. The world’s ...