The largest payload to land on Mars so far is the Perseverance rover, which has a mass of about 1 metric ton. Successfully landing Perseverance and its predecessor Curiosity required a complicated ...

Scientists say they may have found the perfect landing spot for humans on Mars. A team from the University of Mississippi has ...

If we're to land humans on Mars in the coming decades, we'll have to know what challenges await them when they get there.

Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX, said the company could land a spacecraft on Mars three to four years from now. The suggestion was made as Mr. Musk appeared via videoconference on Thursday at the ...

Elon Musk shares vision of Mars as 'life insurance' for humanity: 'Multi-planet civilization' Musk predicts humans could land on the red planet as early as 2029 to create a self-sustaining ...

To land safely on Mars and the moon, we may need to measure dust. Sharmila Kuthunur. Mon, October 21, 2024 at 7:00 PM UTC. 3 min read. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its ...

Robert Zubrin, the planet’s leading strategist for landing humans on Mars, predicts SpaceX’s Starship will win the race to speed astronauts to Mars, but not until 2031.

Fresh from his SpaceX company’s rescue of astronauts stranded on the International Space Station, inventor Elon Musk is already looking at building a sustainable city of 1 million people on Mars ...

Your blood is also red because of a mixture of iron and oxygen in a molecule called hemoglobin. So in a way, the ancient connection between the planet Mars and blood wasn’t completely wrong. Rust, ...

President Donald Trump recently announced that the United States would work to land astronauts on Mars, preferably within the next four years — the extent of his presidential term.

With the successful landing of the Opportunity lander on Saturday (January 24), NASA is now suffering from a rare embarrassment of riches: two Martian rovers on the brink of exploring very different ...