Isaac Arthur. Building a Base on Mars. Posted: April 22, 2025 | Last updated: April 22, 2025. To become an Interplanetary Species we need to colonize another planet, and Mars will be our first target.

Back in 2013 American space agency NASA launched something called the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft. The role of the Lockheed Martin-built piece of hardware is to study ...

NASA scientists recently used Europa Clipper’s instruments to take readings of Mars, as the spacecraft was passing within just 550 miles of the red planet’s surface on March 1.

A European spacecraft on a journey to study NASA's asteroid crash site did a quick pop-in of Mars on its way, capturing unprecedented images of Mars' lesser-known moon, Deimos.. Mars has two moons ...

The distance between Earth and Mars constantly shifts as they move around the sun, ranging from about 35 million miles to 250 million miles. To conserve fuel, spacecraft don’t launch toward the ...

On May 25, 2008, NASA's Phoenix spacecraft made a smooth landing on Mars, completing a nine-month, 422 million-mile journey.

NASA's Lucy spacecraft gets up-close look of strange peanut-shaped asteroid: See images Donaldjohanson is likely a fragment from a collision 150 million years ago, making it one of the youngest in ...

No Downsides for Nuclear Powered Spacecraft for Mars and Beyond. March 14, 2025 March 13, 2025 by Brian Wang. Nuclear pulse propulsion is a technology that would work. It was being developed in the ...

SpaceX's Starship spacecraft is apparently destroyed after launch test: Watch video The uncrewed Starship spacecraft was apparently destroyed during its first flight launch of 2025 that blasted ...

Specifically, that we could live on Mars. Biologist Kelly Weinersmith and cartoonist Zach Weinersmith have spent four years researching what life on Mars would look like if we did it anytime soon.

A high-resolution camera system aboard the Mars Express Orbiter has returned stunning images of “snaking” gashes across the foot of Arsia Mons, one of the red planet’s massive volcanoes. The ...