Though it's a cold, dead planet, Mars still has its own natural beauty about it. This image shows us something we'll never see on Earth.

At the Airbus Mars Yard in the UK ... to the fact that they are made from a nickel-titanium alloy which, as NASA materials research engineer Santo Padula explains in the following video, has ...

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 ...

There’s no technical reason why we couldn’t do the same with humans. Second, Mars is abundant in the raw materials required for humans to “live off the land”, in other words, achieve a ...

Samples from Mars have never been obtained and returned to Earth, and NASA is still hashing out how it plans to achieve that milestone. The tubes will contain material from the surface that is to ...

NASA is therefore eager to get the Mars material — about 30 cigar-sized, sealed tubes containing rock cores and sediment — home, and then on to laboratories around the world. But doing so has ...

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 fact that the cold, dry Mars of today had flowing rivers and lakes several billion years ago has puzzled scientists for decades. Now, researchers think they have a good explanation for a warmer, ...

Is there really life on Mars? Was there once cellular material on the red planet? Scientists have been studying these questions for a long time, and now they have some new information that may ...

NASA is therefore eager to get the Mars material — about 30 cigar-sized, sealed tubes containing rock cores and sediment — home, and then on to laboratories around the world. But doing so has proven ...