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.

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 ...

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 ...

Mars orbiters have given astronomers an unexpected new vantage point on 3I/ATLAS, sharply tightening estimates of the interstellar visitor’s trajectory through the inner solar system. By combining ...

The Mars Express radar, MARSIS, has now been deployed for more than four months. Here we report on the activities so far. For the operational period up to now, Mars Express has been making its closest ...

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 ...

NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft was in excellent shape when it disappeared behind Mars on December 6 of last year. The routine passage, called an occultation, was supposed to last less than an hour, but ...