Astronauts will test the devices on board the International Space Station, following the successful launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket last night (at 23:01 BST, Thursday 25 July) from NASA's Kennedy Space Centre at Cape Canaveral.
The first round-trip to the Red Planet will see a European orbiter bringing martian samples back to Earth.
NASA's Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate, Thomas Zurbuchen, has given the go-ahead to begin fueling the Mars 2020 rover's Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator, or MMRTG.
An ambitious instrument for ESA's ExoMars 2020 mission has passed its testing in conditions resembling those on the Red Planet.
The launch period for NASA's Mars 2020 rover opens exactly one year from July 17, 2020, and extends through Aug.
Mars is about 9 months from Earth with today's tech, NASA reckons. As the new space race hurtles forward, Harvard researchers are asking: how do we make sure the winners can still stand when they reach the finish line?
Resveratrol, a phenol found in red wine, could be used to protect the muscles of astronauts during extended stays in space, like on a mission to Mars.
People have long dreamed of re-shaping the Martian climate to make it livable for humans.
Raising crops on Mars is far easier in science fiction than it will be in real life: The Red Planet is an inhospitable world.
When astronauts live and work on the Moon, they will need access to life-sustaining oxygen, water and other resources.
ESA's Mars Express has been keeping an eye on local and regional dust storms brewing at the north pole of the Red Planet over the last month, watching as they disperse towards the equator.
The processes behind the release and consumption of methane on Mars have been discussed since methane was measured for the first time for approx.
Behold the "mole": The heat-sensing spike that NASA's InSight lander deployed on the Martian surface is now visible.
Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, have installed the SuperCam Mast Unit onto the Mars 2020 rover.
An inflatable decelerator technology that could one day help humans land on Mars will fly on the same Atlas V rocket as the JPSS-2 satellite.
In this image, taken on June 21, 2019, engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, install the main robotic arm on the Mars 2020 rover.
