New discoveries by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover may not only explain why the Red Planet is a dry, lifeless desert, but that it ...

Looks like Mars might have had more water than anyone previously imagined.

Algae grown under Mars-like conditions could make bioplastic building materials for structures to harbor life in space.

The NASA-funded system can form building materials with no outside intervention, which could lead to 3D printing in space.

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Space Mars May Be Hiding an Ocean of Liquid Water Under Its Surface Seismic data collected by NASA suggests the amount of water hidden in the red planet's crust would cover its surface in a global ...

By studying seismic waves, researchers have found a layer deep beneath the surface of Mars that could contain enough liquid water to flood the planet with an ocean thousands of feet deep.

NASA 's Perseverance rover almost had to let go of a precious drill bit on Mars after an attempt to collect a rock sample went awry. For the past week, the car-sized lab on wheels seemed to remain ...

Data gaps appear in images of the Martian surface taken by the HiRISE camera on Mars orbiter reconnaissance, affecting downstream missions, e.g., terrain analysis. Recently, many restoration works are ...

“Mars once had liquid water on its surface in rivers, lakes and possibly oceans,” Dr. Michael Manga, the chair of the University of California — Berkeley’s Department of Earth and ...

A new study by Harvard scientists examining the mystery of water and life on ancient Mars has found several chemical mechanisms that likely contributed to a warmer, wetter environment capable of ...

Imagine you've just gotten to Mars as part of the first contingent of settlers. Your first challenge: build a long-term habitat using local materials. Those might include water from the polar caps ...