Nasa’s mission teams use extreme environments to trial equipment and procedures for future lunar and planetary exploration.

For several decades, it has been thought that dust devils on Mars may be able to produce spark discharges. Many lab ...

Earth’s toughest bacteria could turn Martian dust into building materials. Could these microbes be the key to our survival on ...

Mars Express has found a unique butterfly-shaped crater on Mars. This formation resulted from a space rock hitting at a low ...

Mars Express orbiter captures a slightly elliptical crater measuring roughly 12 miles (20 kilometres) east to wes ...

A new study reveals how specialized microbes might convert Martian regolith into durable, life-supporting structures. Since ...

The melting of the ice caused the soil and rocks to flow like fluidised material. This is why the debris around the crater ...

Of course, everything on Mars has to be different from Earth — not even the thunder can sound like thunder. Instead, these tiny bits of lightning give off sounds more like those that people associate ...

ESA’s Mars Express mission has uncovered a fascinating geological formation on the Red Planet: a massive crater that eerily ...

Long before Mars turned into the frozen desert you see today, water shaped its surface in dramatic ways. Rivers cut through ...

Dust on Mars has a new voice. What once looked like silent red storms now crackles with tiny sparks, as if the planet were ...

Since humanity's first steps on the moon, the aspiration to extend human civilization beyond Earth has been a central ...