As NASA embarks on longer-duration space missions, including the goal of sending humans to Mars, the challenge of maintaining astronaut health far from Earth becomes ever more pressing. In ...

The rover carries a drill to penetrate rocks and tubes to hold the samples gathered from places judged most suitable for ...

Mars is known for its barren desert landscape and dry climate. But two recent studies in the journals Nature and Science go ...

While Mars today only has a wispy remnant of an atmosphere, it may once have had one hundreds of times thicker with a ...

The new AI tool could help astronauts diagnose and treat medical issues when far from Earth and beyond the reach of doctors.

Alphabet Inc. GOOGL GOOG is collaborating with NASA to develop an artificial intelligence medical assistant designed to diagnose and treat astronauts during extended space missions where real-time ...

A simple core of pure iron and nickel couldn’t account for the observed properties. The Martian core must be rich in “light ...

For ages, cartographers and scholars have grappled with the challenge of accurately flattening the Earth onto a map without ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. New research suggests that most of the solar system's inner rocky planets once orbited the sun in ...

The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth was sold for just over $5 million at an auction of rare geological and archaeological objects in New York on Wednesday, while a juvenile dinosaur skeleton ...