When Sonia Van Meter signed up for Mars One, a controversial one-way mission to establish a permanent human colony on the red planet, she accepted the possibility of leaving Earth behind - and her ...

Oops? Life on Mars may have been found — before it was accidentally destroyed during a NASA mission nearly 50 years ago, one ...

Phobos and Deimos could have formed from asteroid debris, a new study suggests. An upcoming sample return mission will help test the idea.

Sydney Do, MIT But Canadian candidates for the Mars One mission say they are still keen to volunteer and are certain that any issues with the plan can be worked out. The new feasibility study was ...

The UAE craft is one of three missions heading to Mars this month. The US and China both have surface rovers in the late stages of preparation. The American mission, Perseverance, sent its ...

NASA currently has no specific target date for any Mars mission, she said. “One of the biggest challenges is the human system, keeping crew healthy and alive and capable of even exploring Mars ...

Forget “one giant step for man”, the first person to step on Mars could be a woman – Alyssa Carson. The 18-year-old, who is one of the world’s youngest astronauts-in-training, speaks to ...

Just recently, for example, one of its ... the surface of Mars, obscuring a large part of the sun’s disc,” NASA’s JET Propulsion Laboratory, which is overseeing the rover mission, said ...