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NASA's Curiosity Rover merged six images on Friday to complete a photo of a tiny, microscopic formation on Mars that looks like a flower.

Mars Rover Snaps Image That Looks a Lot Like an Organism, Though of Course It’s Almost Certainly Not

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The team from McGill University designed a rocket system that uses a 10-meter wide laser array on Earth to power up an orbiting spacecraft.

Scientists Propose Mission to Mars Powered by Giant Laser on Earth

By Tony Ho Tran

After accruing even more dust during a recent storm, NASA scientists believe that the InSight Mars lander may finally be on its last legs.

NASA’s Mars Lander Believed to Be Dying After Furious Dust Storm

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new photo taken by ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, or the TGO, shows a tree stump-like crater on Mars, providing insight into impacts on the Martian surface.

Photo of Mars Crater Looks Amazingly Like a Giant Tree Stump

By Lonnie Lee Hood

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover did a little shimmy to loosen yet another pair of pebbles blocking its sample collection instrument.

Mars Rover Does “Twist on One Foot” to Shake Off More Pebbles

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has successfully ejected several pebbles obstructing its sample collection system since taking its sixth sample in December.

NASA’s Mars Rover Successfully Shakes Off Obstructing Pebbles

By Victor Tangermann

The Perseverance rover found evidence of this mysterious coloring on rocks at almost every site the craft has visited on Mars.

Scientists Puzzled by Purple Coating on Mars Rocks

By Tony Ho Tran

Despite having landed on Mars almost a decade ago, NASA's Curiosity rover is still leading to fascinating new discoveries — and the latest is a real doozy.

Scientists Extremely Intrigued by Possible Sign of Life on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is warning that there may not be enough people to populate Mars if global birth rates keep dropping.

Elon Musk Warns There Soon Won’t Be Enough People Left to Populate Mars

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Perseverance rover has run into a bit of trouble: small pieces of Mars rock are now obstructing the rover's sample collection system.

NASA’s Mars Rover Has Run Into Trouble

By Victor Tangermann

An increasing number of experts are suggesting the dream of terraforming Mars and making it at least a little bit more habitable for humans is still alive.

Former NASA Scientist Explains How We Could Terraform Mars

By Victor Tangermann

China's Tianwen-1 Mars orbiter has taken some incredible selfies with the massive surface of the Red Planet lurking ominously in the background.

China’s Mars Orbiter Shares Incredible New Selfies

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Jim Green is leaving the space agency after four decades, but says he has plans to terraform Mars and make it habitable with a magnetic shield.

NASA’s Chief Scientist Quits, Says He Has a Plan to Terraform Mars

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says humans may touch down on Mars in as little as ten years with his reusable Starship rocket.

Elon Musk Says He’ll Have Boots on Mars Within Ten Years

By Lonnie Lee Hood

NASA's Mars helicopter briefly lost connection last week, and it could be because of Apache Log4j flaw that allows hackers to attack with little effort.

NASA Says Its Mars Helicopter Does Not Have the Log4j Security Flaw

By Lonnie Lee Hood

With the help of the European Space Agency's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, scientists discovered a huge deposit of water at the bottom of a Martian canyon.

Scientists Spot Hidden Water in Mars’ Grand Canyon

By Victor Tangermann

NASA Scientists Are Gonna Bawl Their Eyes When the Tiny Mars Chopper Dies

NASA Scientists Are Gonna Bawl Their Eyes When the Tiny Mars Chopper Dies

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA Rover’s New Selfie Will Make You Feel Like You’re on Mars, and Maybe a Little Drunk

By Victor Tangermann

A recent long-term isolation experiment on a simulated Mars base found that participants often get a little distant and rebellious as time goes on.

Simulated Mars Base Got Kinda Rebellious, Worrying Scientists

By Tony Ho Tran

A team of scientists are suggesting that we protect humans on Mars from deadly atmospheric conditions by kickstarting the planet's magnetic field.

Scientists Propose Jumpstarting Mars’ Magnetic Field to Make It Habitable

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Elon Musk warned of climate change, comet strikes, and dropping birth rates — not to mention, in his words, "good ol' nuclear Armageddon."

Elon Musk: We Have to Get to Mars Because of “Nuclear Armageddon” on Earth

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover has scooped up its next Martian soil sample — and this time, the rock has got a fascinating, new geological feature.

NASA Mars Rover Samples Mars With “Greenish Mineral”

By Victor Tangermann

Dr. Shannon Rupert, director of the MDRS, recently penned an op-ed deriding the influx of sightseers to the Mars research station.

People Keep Sneaking Onto Simulated Mars Base for Social Media Clout

By Tony Ho Tran

A team of researchers successfully tested a sample of Martian dirt by directing NASA's Curiosity rover to mix it with chemical reagents inside a cup.

NASA Rover Detects Organic Molecules on the Surface of Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Billionaire and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, the richest person in the world, has other goals in mind for his tremendous wealth: making humanity interplanetary.

Elon Musk Says He Wants to Use Wealth to Get Humans to Mars, Not Pay Taxes

By Victor Tangermann

Georgia Tech scientists believe that microbes could be the key to producing the rocket fuel needed to take humans from Mars back to Earth.

Microbes Could Help Produce Rocket Fuel for Return Trips from Mars

By Tony Ho Tran

SpaceX has shared an exciting new 90-second montage dubbed "Gateway to Mars" of its gigantic Starship spacecraft prototypes being tested.

SpaceX Shares Spicy Video of Its Mars Rocket Being Tested

By Victor Tangermann

NASA officials say that the US needs to invest in nuclear-powered spacecraft if it wants to beat its geopolitical rivals to Mars.

NASA Says It Needs Nuclear Rockets to Put People on Mars Before China

By Tony Ho Tran

Kilm Shipenko, the Russian director of “The Challenge," told reporters at a news conference that he’d be willing to film a sequel on the Moon or Mars

Russian Director Who Filmed Movie on ISS Says He’s Doing the Moon or Mars Next

By Tony Ho Tran

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter had to delay its 14th flight, scheduled for September 18, due to an "anomaly" with its flight-control motors.

NASA’s Mars Helicopter Is In Trouble

By Victor Tangermann

The Sun is about to pass between Mars and Earth, so NASA and the CNSA are putting their various rovers into safe mode until it moves.

Every Mars Rover Is About To Go Into Safe Mode

By Dan Robitzski

A team of Chinese scientists have developed a concept for a Mars drone that weighs 1,100 pounds and could travel at five times the speed of sound.

Chinese Scientists Working on Mars Drone That Flies Faster Than Sound

By Tony Ho Tran

Scientists at The University of Manchester have come up with a macabre new way to turn Martian soil into a stronger material: human blood, sweat, and tears.

Scientists Suggest Mixing “Astronaut Blood” With Mars Dust to Create Horrific Shelters

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Mars rover Perseverance finally managed to scoop up and study rock samples after a series of baffling failures and mishaps.

It Worked! NASA’s Mars Rover Definitely Scooped up Rock Samples This Time

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists got an incredible look at Kleopatra, also known as the "dog bone asteroid," which is spinning so fast it might rip itself apart.

Rapidly Spinning “Dog Bone” Asteroid Near Mars Could Break Itself Apart

By Dan Robitzski

NASA says that its Perseverance rover has finally collected samples of Mars rocks, but the photo offered up as proof doesn't show too much.

NASA Claims Rover Collected Mars Rock, But We Wanna See Proof

By Dan Robitzski

China's National Space Science Center (CNNSC) has shown off a prototype for a "Mars cruise drone" that looks extremely familiar.

China Appears to Be Working on a Clone of NASA’s Mars Helicopter

By Victor Tangermann

To celebrate 100 days on Mars, China's national space agency released a number of photos showing the path its Mars rover took.

China Releases Beautiful New Photos from the Surface of Mars

By Victor Tangermann

After NASA's Mars rover Perseverance messed up trying to collect rock samples, the agency is trying again somewhere else.

NASA Has a New Plan After Mars Rover Fumbles Rock Collection

By Dan Robitzski

The Zhurong rover has officially finished its 90-sol mission to explore Utopia Planitia on the martian surface — but it's going to keep working.

China Declares “Mission Complete” for Mars Rover Zhurong

By Tony Ho Tran

Elon Musk boasted about Starship's reusability via tweet, saying that it’ll help drive more cost-effective missions to the Moon and Mars.

Elon Musk: Each Starship Could Travel to Mars a Dozen Times

By Tony Ho Tran

NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity has embarked on its 11th flight on the Red Planet's surface, flying to record heights, reaching altitues of almost 40 feet.

NASA Mars Helicopter Flies Super High, Spots Rover Way Down on Ground

By Victor Tangermann

After Perseverance tried and failed to collect rock samples on Mars, NASA insists that the blame lies squarely on the rocks' shoulders.

After Mars Rover Fails to Collect Rock, NASA Blames Rock

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists suspect that there could be past or present microbial life beneath the surface of Mars that survives thanks to radioactivity.

NASA Scientists Suggest Nuclear-Powered Life Under Mars Surface

By Dan Robitzski

An international team of scientists argue that once upon a time, the Gale crater on Mars was a mere series of ponds, according to Curiosity data.

Scientists Say NASA’s Mars Rover Is on the Site of Ancient Ponds, Not a Huge Lake

By Victor Tangermann

NASA’s Perseverance rover failed to collect its first ever rock samples from Mars to send back to Earth on Friday. Researchers believe the rock's to blame.

Mars Rover Tries to Collect Rock to Send Back to Earth, Fails Miserably

By Tony Ho Tran

NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover has made its next big discovery: a patch of rock that "is probably exposed bedrock," according to an update.

NASA Mars Rover Found Bedrock That Looks Like Flagstones

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's groundbreaking Mars Helicopter has sent back some stunning color pictures it took on July 5 while flying over the Red Planet's rocky landscape.

NASA’s Mars Helicopter Sends Back Stunning Color Photos

By Victor Tangermann

NASA engineers are already dreaming up bigger and better ideas for Mars helicopters based on the surprising success of Ingenuity.

NASA Is Already Working on a Bigger, Better Mars Helicopter

By Dan Robitzski

A subsidiary of Russia’s Roscosmos space agency is proposing to send a nuclear power station to Mars to power a future Russian base.

Russia Proposes Nuclear Power Plant on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Clay samples from Mars suggest that the Red Planet once experienced a long-lasting era of temperate, habitable conditions.

Clay Dug Up by NASA Mars Rover Makes It Seem Like Red Planet Could’ve Supported Life

By Dan Robitzski

A probe sent by the United Arab Emirates to study the Martian atmosphere has caught beautiful and fleeting auroras on camera.

Amazing New Images Show Auroras on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover is making another pit stop on its exciting journey to probe the surrounding Jezero Crater for signs of ancient life.

NASA’s Mars Rover Just Reached a New Area and It’s Beautiful

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have uncovered dozens more subterranean lakes near Mars' south pole, but some of their locations defy explanation.

NASA Research Identifies Dozens of Underground Lakes on Mars

By Dan Robitzski

The Chinese rover Zhurong sent footage of its descent along with a video of its drive off of the Tianwen-1 landing platform on Sunday.

Chinese Rover Sends Video, Audio Back From Mars

By Tony Ho Tran

China's state-owned Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology has announced some ambitious plans to establish a permanent crewed base on the surface of Mars.

China Releases Plans for Permanent Mars Base

By Victor Tangermann

This afternoon, the New York Times published an article making a surprising claim about exobiology: that watermelons had been discovered on Mars.

New York Times Publishes Then Deletes Article Claiming Watermelons Were Found on Mars

By Jon Christian

After spending over two and a half years on the surface of Mars, NASA's Insight Mars Lander is looking a little worse for wear.

NASA’s Mars Lander Is Dying

By Victor Tangermann

Engineers from ETH Zurich in Switzerland and the Max Planck Institute in Germany built a small quadrupedal robot meant to tackle the steep hills of Mars.

Scientists Built a Walking Mars Rover That Can Climb Steep Hills

By Victor Tangermann

In the new photos from China's Mars lander, there's an interesting detail with profound implications for the future of Mars exploration: a huge hole.

Check Out This Huge Hole That China’s Mars Rover Blasted Into the Ground While Landing

By Jon Christian

China released a series of new photos of the surface of Mars from its Zhurong rover this morning -- and took a victory lap in state media.

China Releases New Photos From the Surface of Mars

By Jon Christian

NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter nailed its seventh flight without facing any of the glitches that forced an emergency landing during its previous journey.

After Past Glitches, Mars Helicopter Nails Flight Number Seven

By Dan Robitzski

NASA finally managed to shake some of the dust off of the InSight lander's solar panels, buying it at least a few more months of life.

NASA Saves Dying Mars Lander With Ingenious Hack

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has taken a series of photographs of gorgeous multicolored clouds, shimmering in the evening Sun on Mars.

Mars Rover Snaps Photo of Shimmering Multicolored Clouds

By Victor Tangermann