The European Space Agency (ESA) wants to develop key technologies for a Mars surface lander by the mid-2030s. ESA is already planning to send the much-delayed, life-hunting Rosalind Franklin rover ...

They're small, each at some six millimeters (about a quarter inch) high. Preserved ripples on Mars' surface. Credit: Mondro et al. Science Advances, January 2025 More ripples observed by NASA's ...

The findings suggest mantle convection shaped Mars’ crust over time. Heat rising from the interior altered the planet’s surface billions of years ago. Geochemical analysis of Martian ...

The fourth planet from the Sun, Mars is often called the Red Planet because its solid surface is covered with orange-red iron oxide, a material with a similar composition to rust. Mars is ...

But does Mars have any resources we could use to create shelters? Martian soil is known as ‘regolith’, consisting of inorganic dust and broken-up rock. Some areas of the surface and subsurface ...

More than a decade on from the first steps, new evidence appears to confirm the theory that Mars once contained liquid water on the planet’s surface. The findings are the result of the ongoing ...

By Gary Trust Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ “Die With a Smile” notches a fourth total and consecutive week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart. The ballad became Gaga’s sixth Hot 100 ...

providing new insights into the ancient geography and hydrology of Mars.” The clay-rich rock layers within the mounds suggest that an abundance of water was present on the Martian surface ...

During the speech, Trump vowed to "pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the Stars and Stripes on the planet Mars". As soon as he said that ...

President Donald Trump made a bold promise to America minutes after taking the Oath of Office: pledging that an American flag would be planted on Mars. "The United States will once again consider ...

Related: What is the temperature on Mars? Light travels at approximately 186,282 miles per second (299,792 km per second). Therefore, a light shining from the surface of Mars would take the ...

Deputy Liberal leader Sussan Ley has compared the arrival of the First Fleet with Elon Musk's efforts to build a colony on Mars in an Australia Day speech delivered at a local church service.