Mars

NASA has just discovered oxygen in the Martian atmosphere, using an instrument onboard the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared...

NASA's Curiosity rover is about to complete one of its greatest obstacles yet, as it has nearly crossed Mars' Naukluft Plateau,...

After much teasing, SpaceX has officially announced that they're sending their Dragon spacecraft to Mars in 2018: Planning to send...

Are we getting closer to being able to sustain a human colony on Mars? MIT engineering student and NASA fellow Heather Hava has just...

Stephen Hawking just announced Breakthrough Starshot, an initiative funded by billionaire Yuri Milner to build tiny, light-powered...

NASA's Journey to Mars has faced some criticism as of late, but when NASA Chief and former astronaut Charles Bolden addressed the...

Astrobiologists might have discovered the best place to look for alien life on Mars, in the form of a region called the Argyre basin,...

Andy Weir's The Martian (and it's subsequent big screen adaptation) has helped push Mars, Science and Space Exploration into the...

How would the protagonist on The Martian have fared on the Red Planet?

Russia has just announced plans to build a nuclear space engine that will be ready for the testing stage in 2018, with the goal of...

Could we be one step closer to a viable plan for a Mars colony? Researchers from the Netherlands have performed an experiment in which...

Between finding water on Mars and their partnership with The Martian, which basically serves as an hour-and-a-half-long commercial for...

Not content with making detailed maps of our own planet, renowned British mapping agency Ordnance Survey has just it's first map of...

The planned launch of the InSight Mars lander has already been delayed, and sometime next month, NASA will decide whether the launch...

What will the future of space travel look like? That was the question NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory put to two designers who have...

Elon Musk's vision of a hyperloop is slowly but surely becoming a reality, but even though we don't actually have one on Earth yet,...

Congress just positively ripped apart NASA's plans for a Journey to Mars, criticizing their lack of a concrete plan with achievable...

If you're constantly pressing the "snooze" button or are reluctant to get out of bed before noon, it turns out there might be an...

This year was a huge year for science, especially with regard to achievements in space exploration. NASA seems to be making strides...

A mission to Mars has been the white whale of space exploration for years now, and with the discovery of water on Mars and the...