Mars, the next frontier in space exploration, still poses many questions for scientists. The planet was once more hospitable, characterized by a warm and wet climate with liquid oceans. But today Mars ...

D printers will make the tools, structures and habitats space pioneers need to survive in a hostile alien environment.

A research group from Tohoku University has helped shed light on this by improving an existing Mars climate model. The enhanced model accommodates the various properties of Martian regolith ...

Scientists widely accept that Mars is red because of the presence of iron oxide, which commonly forms when iron in the planet’s soil (known as regolith) reacts with either liquid water or water ...

The research, published in the journal Nature Communications, looks into the material that covers Mars's surface, called regolith. This contains iron minerals, including iron oxide, which you ...

Nuclear pulse propulsion is a technology that would work. It was being developed in the 1960s. It was stopped because of the nuclear test ban treaty and ...

That’s not true of Mars.” The regolith, or materials that cover the ground of the planet, tells an ancient water story — one that students of space like Hausrath are uncovering, piece by piece.

Mars’s red dust may contain ferrihydrite, an iron mineral that forms in water. This suggests ancient Mars had water for ...

Building homes on Mars might require more than just cutting-edge technology; it may also demand something that feels straight out of ancient history. The first settlers ... Continue Reading → ...

Earth's robotic explorers have been roaming Mars since the 1960s ... have used to measure the chemistry and mineralogy of Martian regolith — the loose, fragmented layer of dust, soil, and ...

Habitats on the Moon and Mars must protect astronauts from the lack of air, extreme temperatures, micrometeorite impacts and radiation. Regolith, the fine, dusty, sandlike particles that cover ...