Building a Base on Mars. Posted: January 24, 2025 | Last updated: January 24, 2025. To become an Interplanetary Species we need to colonize another planet, and Mars will be our first target.

CAPE CANAVERAL -- A robotic dirt and ice digger rocketed toward Mars on Saturday, beginning a 422 million-mile journey that NASA hopes will culminate next spring in the first ever landing within ...

NASA's Mars lander, called Insight, is slowly losing power because its two solar panels are covered in dust and it will need to mostly shut down by the end of May.

In fact, a study published in JGR Planets suggests that astronomers could have found the perfect spot for a Mars base, and it's close to a mass of frozen water that astronauts could easily reach.

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) caught a glimpse of the agency's retired InSight lander recently, documenting the accumulation of dust on the spacecraft's solar panels. In the new image ...

FILE - This image provided by NASA shows the InSight Mars lander in a selfie photo composite on April 24, 2022, the 1,211th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.