For decades, scientists have puzzled over why Earth stayed warm and alive while Mars turned cold and dry. Both planets began with similar ingredients—rocky surfaces, carbon, water, and sunlight—but ...
The Algodones Dunes, straddling the borders of California, Arizona, and Mexico, may seem like an unlikely location for Mars research, but this Californian desert is offering scientists a goldmine of ...
For anyone curious about what it's like to stand on another planet, Earth offers a few convincing previews. Mars may be 140 ...
Hidden among the majestic canyons of the Utah desert, about 7 miles from the nearest town, is a small research facility meant to prepare humans for life on Mars. The Mars Society, a nonprofit ...
Scientists have studied the driest regions of the Atacama Desert to understand whether life could exist on Mars ...
NASA’s Curiosity rover captured this photo as it ascended the Martian mountain Mt. Sharp. A study proposes a new explanation for why Mars is a barren desert today, despite having many similarities to ...
Humanity is far from colonizing Mars, but that’s not stopping a group of space enthusiasts from practicing anyway. CNBC shadowed crew 315 on the last day of their analog mission at the Mars Desert ...