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The latest selfie by NASA's Perseverance rover at Mars has captured an unexpected guest: a Martian dust devil.

Much was riding on Flight 9 for Elon Musk’s giant moon and Mars rocket after debris from January and March flights fell into ...

A two-year experiment to see if NASA could produce oxygen on Mars ended with scientists creating enough breathable air on the Red Planet to help a small dog survive, scientists said this week.

In order to create breathable air, the researchers led by Jun Jiang at the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei wanted to find a way to break down Mars' water into its hydrogen ...

This opens the door to producing breathable air on Mars for future human explorers. Mars doesn't have very much atmosphere—it's about 1% as dense as Earth's. What there is won't help you stay ...

Humans therefore cannot breathe Martian air. For crewed Mars exploration efforts, we need to find a way to generate oxygen from the thin, carbon dioxide atmosphere and an experiment carried out on ...

Millions of miles away on Mars, in a barren crater just north of the equator, a rover is wandering around, carrying a gold-coated gadget the size of a toaster. The machine inhales the Martian air ...