Mars has long served as inspiration to many a science fiction writer in search of a home planet for their imagined extraterrestrials. But could the terrestrial red planet ever have actually been home ...

When a rover is exploring the surface of Mars, it doesn’t send data straight back to Earth. That’s for two reasons: Firstly, it would require a large, powerful antenna which would be cumbersome and ...

What is we used all of the solar energy on Mars to power an AI data center? How many 1000-watt GPUs can be powered? Mars receives solar energy based on the sunlight hitting its cross-sectional area.

Landers and rovers on Mars gather data that help scientists answer fundamental questions about the geology, atmosphere, surface environment, history of water and potential for life on the Red Planet.

Ancient Martian rivers were not the modest, slow-moving streams that earlier models described. A remote-sensing technique published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that ...

Although the James Webb Space Telescope was built primarily for looking back at the earliest and most distant galaxies, it can also be used for a host of other scientific observations — including ...

Mars is one of the closest neighboring planets to our own. As such, it has been the center of several studies and astronomical expeditions – with NASA even hoping to send humans to Mars in the 2030s.

NASA's Mars InSight Lander may be resting on the Red Planet in retirement, but data from the robotic explorer is still leading to seismic discoveries on Earth. In one of the latest studies using data ...

Why it matters: NASA's InSight mission began studying Mars in 2018, and it didn't stop recording and sending data until its last breath, in December 2022. That trove of scientific data continues to ...

The most powerful solar storm recorded at Mars in the current solar cycle has just given scientists a stark preview of what a human presence on the Red Planet will really face. Radiation levels spiked ...