The same gigantic sunspot that was responsible for triggering a historic geomagnetic storm on Earth in mid-May whipped up a legendary one for Mars a few days later. The impacts from this solar event provided quite an education for scientists watching ...

Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy and Nicky Fox, head of NASA's Science Mission Directorate, discuss the paper published this morning in "Nature" presenting the best evidence yet of ancient microbial life on Mars.

Why is the Martian sky usually red, but sometimes turns blue? In this video, we’ll explore the science behind Mars’s mysterious colors from the thin atmosphere and iron-rich dust that paint the planet in shades of rust,

A previous Nextbigfuture article went over the costs of sending one thousand fully loaded with supplies and equipment SpaceX Starships to Mars every two years. These costs could be reduced towards the cumulative $1 trillion level or $25 billion per year ...

NASA's CHAPEA mission was a 378-day Mars simulation in a habitat in Houston. Scientists want to know what challenges astronauts will face on Mars, including extreme isolation. Crew member Ross Brockwell said that despite the difficulties, he would love to ...

The crew of a NASA mission to Mars emerged from their craft after a yearlong voyage that never left Earth.The four volunteer crew members spent more than 12 months inside NASA's first simulated Mars environment at Johnson Space Center in Houston, coming ...

Joseph Silk is not a fantasist or science fiction author. He holds a doctorate in astronomy from Harvard University and taught astrophysics and cosmology at Oxford University. But what he wrote in his book Back to the Moon: The Next Giant Leap for ...

A cornerstone of early 1970s rock music culture was the British singer David Bowie in his Ziggy Stardust persona, along with his backing band the Spiders from Mars. You can tell that the PR department at the European Space Agency were beside themselves ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook I had a delightfully cranky calculus teacher in high school. He had been teaching mathematics for a long time and he loved his job, partly because he ...