NASA’s Orion Moon Capsule Is Back. What Happens Next?
The craft survived a 26-day voyage and a scorching descent. Now it’s time for NASA engineers to learn what went wrong—and what went right. ..
The craft survived a 26-day voyage and a scorching descent. Now it’s time for NASA engineers to learn what went wrong—and what went right. ..
Interstellar Lab’s inflatable BioPod is designed to help plants survive inhospitable conditions on Earth and allow explorers to settle on the Red Planet. ..
These cells—and the way they reawaken—can tell biologists quite a lot about life, death, and the gray zone in between. ..
These are tantalizing hints that microbes might have lived on Mars billions of years ago, but scientists need to study the rocks back on Earth to be sure. ..
Space fans around the world can help analyze data collected by the Mars Climate Sounder. ..
Scientists show how microbes living in a salty spring near the North Pole might resemble those that could have survived on the Red Planet—or in ocean ..
NASA engineers are trying to keep the Mars helicopter running as it endures longer, colder nights and the chance of more frequent dust storms. ..
After the InSight lander studied the strongest marsquake ever detected, scientists gave the space robot a negative prognosis because of its dwindling solar ..
A new study shows how future inhabitants of the Red Planet could run on either energy source, depending on where they set up camp. ..
The agency’s Innovative Advanced Concepts program provides seed funding for ideas that sound like sci-fi—but just might work. ..