Mars

No Time to Rest The InSight Mars lander really deserved some vacation time. After a strenuous seven months of gliding through outer space, the lander had to survive what NASA described as “seven minutes of terror” — lighting up like…

NASA’s InSight Mars lander has successfully landed on Mars. InSight’s two-year mission will be to study the deep interior of Mars to learn how all celestial bodies with rocky surfaces, including Earth and the Moon, formed. It is on…

Nasa’s brand new Mars lander has sent back the first stunning of the surface of the red planet, taken at the end of a terrifying journey. As well as showing the dusty red ground that is now the InSight lander’s home, the photo marks…

Mission Accomplished It took six and a half long months of space travel to reach the Martian surface, but NASA’s InSight Mars Lander has finally made it. The robotic lander had to cover some 300 million miles (483 million km) to get…

Elon Musk has been threatening to move to to Mars for a while now, but for the first time he’s actually attached a number to the probability of him making the leap – in an interview for documentary series Axios on HBO, he said there…

Deafening Silence Think it’s bad when a Tinder date ghosts you? Imagine how NASA is feeling right now. The space agency has been in near-constant communication with its Opportunity rover ever since the craft landed on Mars in 2004.…

RADIATION STATION We already knew sending crewed missions to Mars would be dangerous. Now we know that it will blast them with horrifying doses of cosmic radiation. The silver lead lining: now at least we know exactly how much, so we can…

DEADLY RAYS Getting humans to Mars could cost upwards of $1 trillion. But for the astronauts making the journey, the cost could be even higher — they might pay with their lives. According to a new NASA-funded study conducted by researchers…

Back in June, NASA revealed two mind-blowing facts: that there is organic matter on Mars, and that levels of methane in the planet’s atmosphere ebb and flow over time. It’s pretty exciting news that shook our understanding of astrobiology.…

Selecting a landing site for a rover headed to Mars is a lengthy process that normally involves large committees of scientists and engineers. These committees typically spend several years weighing a mission’s science objectives against a…