Next time you're driving around on Mars and need to get your tire replaced, chances are good it'll look something like a ...

NASA has joined forces with Goodyear to develop new tyres for Mars exploration. At the Glenn Research Center in Ohio, ...

Challenges to Mars construction Of course, there are other factors besides material availability at work in such a construction project. Here on Earth, we have centuries of experience building in ...

The next Mars rovers may traverse the Red Planet with futuristic tires. NASA 's Glenn Research Center released imagery and footage from testing of a novel tire, called a shape memory alloy spring tire ...

Any vehicle traversing the rocky terrain on Mars needs a sturdy set of wheels. NASA’s Perseverance rover, for example, sports ...

it’s not clear why there also wasn’t the same amount of material near Mars so that it might grow to be the same size, Matthew Clement, a planetary scientist at Johns Hopkins University’s ...

Whether the material for constructing the factories could be shipped to Mars or made from Martian elements is being debated. Scientists have thought about attaching nuclear, thermal-rocket engines ...

The new work suggests that the edge of the dichotomy was eroded back by hundreds of kilometers during the time when an ocean ...

In late December 2024 and early January 2025, a photo circulated on multiple social media sites claiming to show an ice-capped crater on Mars (archived) that scientists recently discovered.

Wind then eroded the softer material around the rock-hard minerals. Captured on May 2, 2022 is this rock on Mars driven over by the Perseverance rover, which created “accidental zen art ...

The goal of the Mars Sample Return Program, which is being planned jointly with the European Space Agency (ESA), is to retrieve samples of rock, gas and loose surface material that were collected ...