Imagine you've just gotten to Mars as part of the first contingent of settlers. Your first challenge: build a long-term habitat using local materials. Those might include water from the polar caps ...

Using artificial intelligence, scientists have discovered a crater from a meteoroid that they say shook material as deep as ...

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 ...

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 ...

Credit: NASA Santo Padula, a NASA materials engineer at the Glenn Research Center, has worked on finetuning SMA technology for years, but only recently realized their potential for Mars rover ...

Exciting advances in space exploration are underway as NASA tests revolutionary shape memory alloy (SMA) spring tires ...

Harry McSween, a longtime Mars sample return proponent and a professor emeritus at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, also emphasizes the importance of retrieving as much material as possible.

This story was updated to correct inaccurate position of Mars and Earth. Mars will appear its biggest and brightest this month when it reaches its closest position to Earth while simultaneously ...

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 ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS NASA is considering two ways to get its precious Mars samples ...