Mars

NASA's next-generation rover to the surface of Mars, which is already overbudget and behind schedule, faces significant hurdles as it races to the launch pad for a November liftoff, an internal audit released Wednesday found.

Newly released images from ESA’s Mars Express show Nili Fossae, a system of deep fractures around the giant Isidis impact basin. Some of these incisions into the martian crust are up to 500 m deep and probably formed at the ...

"It was an unpleasant place to hang out," said researcher.

Process can affect the stability of liquid water if it exists on the Martian surface and increase the frequency and severity of Martian dust storms.

Spaceship will have a nuclear power propulsion unit.

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A manned mission to Mars is planned for the mid 2030s.

A moon base is planned by 2030.

Curiosity is scheduled to launch in November.

NASA will scale back efforts to communicate if there's still no contact in the next month.

Filmmaker James Cameron had been building a 3-D camera for Mars rover Curiosity, but for this mission we won't be needing the 3-D glasses.

Company wants to take humans to the moons of Mars and asteroids eventually.

After 257 days in a locked, windowless steel capsule, researchers on a mock trip to Mars ventured from their cramped quarters in heavy space suits Monday, trudging into a sand-covered room to plant flags on a simulated Red Planet.

Light-colored mounds of a mineral deposited on a volcanic cone more than three billion years ago may preserve evidence of one of the most recent habitable microenvironments on Mars.