On the 100th anniversary of the first airborne flight, the Association of Mars Explorers is calling upon the President to set an ambitious goal of landing humans on Mars and establishing a permanent ...

The weather on Earth can be strange, but it may be nothing compared to global dust storms or nighttime snowfall on Mars that scientists are just beginning to understand. Before we send humans to other ...

The Association of Mars Explorers has named its new President for 2004-2006. Andrew C. Schuerger, PhD, with the University of Florida and the NASA Kennedy Space Center will take over as President at ...

NASA is in communication with its Mars explorers again following last month’s solar conjunction. On Nov. 11, Earth’s orbit and that of Mars aligned so that they were on opposite sides of the Sun, ...

In 2028, if all goes well, NASA plans to test a new technology that could reduce trip times to the Red Planet.

To misquote Oscar Wilde, to lose one mission may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose two looks like carelessness.

Engineers are increasingly turning to the concept of "biomimicry" for the next generation of Mars robots.

NASA is in an awkward spot. Thanks to Mars’ orbit and that of our own planet, the Sun is currently blocking all communication between Earth and the agency’s many active Mars missions. As a result, ...

China’s next Mars explorer is not a rover that crawls or a helicopter that hovers, but a hybrid drone that can roll across the ground and then leap into the thin air when terrain turns hostile. By ...

NASA’s robotic exploration team has proven they have the right stuff Matthew Shindell Images sent back to Earth during the past two decades have revealed Mars to be a vibrant alien world—with more ...