Mars has an active, electrically charged surface where dust storms and spinning dust devils regularly move and reshape the ...

NASA has begun its first long-duration Mars simulation by sealing a four-person crew inside a 3D-printed habitat at Johnson ...

The sandbox portion of the Crew Health and Performance Analog, where research volunteers participate in simulated walks on the surface of Mars. Credit: NASA HOUSTON—NASA has selected four crewmembers ...

A view inside the sandbox portion of NASA’s Crew Health and Performance Analog, where research volunteers participate in simulated walks on the surface of Mars. NASA is not quite sending astronauts to ...

Have you ever wondered what it might be like to live on Mars? NASA is looking for volunteers for a yearlong mission that will simulate what living on the red planet might be like. On Feb. 16, NASA put ...

Mars, often depicted as a barren red planet, is far from lifeless. With its thin atmosphere and dusty surface, it is an energetic and electrically charged environment where dust storms and dust devils ...

Mars may look quiet from a distance, but up close it is anything but ...

Mars is a dusty planet dominated by vast, dry deserts, with no easily accessible sources of liquid water. Much like on Earth, dust is lifted from Mars's surface by wind and rotating air columns, ...

The earth (and humanity) would be very different without our smaller red neighbor. In A Nutshell Computer simulations show ...

HOUSTON, Texas -- Starting Sunday night, a team of four volunteers will spend the next year inside a 1,700 square foot 3-D printed habitat at Johnson Space Center. The team is simulating what it would ...

For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that certain lichen species can survive Mars-like conditions, including exposure to ionising radiation, while maintaining a metabolically active state ...