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 looking for people to live in a Mars simulator 04:54. A unique phenomenon that could be mistaken for spiders scuttling across the planet's surface has been spotted on Mars, according to the ...

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 ...

All this seems to mesh with NASA’s “Journey to Mars” program, which aims to send astronauts to Mars in the 2030s. But a closer look at NASA’s program reveals potential problems.

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 ...

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 ...

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured imagery of water ice on gullies, which could form shallow pools. They may be good places to seek life, the space agency said.

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.

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 ...