Decades before modern rovers ever reached Mars, NASA scientists were already imagining permanent human colonies on the red ...

For more than a century, popular culture has promised that humanity will spread effortlessly across the Solar System, turning ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has just made history by driving across Mars using routes planned by artificial intelligence instead of human operators. A vision-capable AI analyzed the same images and ...

What makes colonizing Mars a good idea? Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy Is probably the best example but it mostly uses the backdrop of Mars as a plot device ...

NASA has lost contact with its MAVEN spacecraft, which has been orbiting Mars for over a decade. The loss of signal occurred on Dec. 6 as the orbiter passed behind Mars from Earth's perspective. MAVEN ...

NASA's sharp-eyed Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) just notched a big milestone. MRO's HiRISE ("High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment") camera has now snapped 100,000 photos of the surface of ...