MARS

Sunday afternoon's launch marks the first shipment to the International Space Station from the United States in months.

Mars' largest moon is being torn apart by the planet's gravitational pull. And soon, its debris could form a ring around the red planet.

On Tuesday, NASA announced that two university research groups will receive the humanoid robot to test and develop for future space missions.

Mars is to blame for Phobos' demise, which will happen in the next 30 to 50 million years.

Several studies reveal increased ion loss during a coronal mass ejection.

A team of experts at the Russian Academy of Science are planning to send a group of monkeys to send them on a mission to Mars by 2017.

The planetary trio formed by Venus, Mars and Jupiter pursuing their normal orbit around the sun will be visible until Thursday.

A new report from NPR, published Sunday, explores the theory that Earthlings are, in fact, Martians.

Space travel today is just too slow, so one rocket scientist is developing technology that could send humans to Mars in a matter of weeks.

Sending humans to the red planet would involve crossing three "thresholds," the space agency said, in a new report. NASA aims to establish "Earth independent" habitats on Mars as early as the 2030s.

A design for a 3D-printed pressurized shell of multi-layered ice -- named the "Mars Ice House" -- has won the top prize in NASA's Mars Habitat contest.

"The evidence says no one's out there," said world-renowned NASA scientist William Borucki.

Each participant will have a small room containing a sleeping cot and desk.

The glider, named Prandtl-m, would go through a series of tests before it's deployed on Mars sometime in the early 2020s.

The announcement comes amid a surge in interest in the Red Planet.

Named after the bestselling science fiction classic, "2001: A Space Odyssey," the spacecraft has been in orbit around Mars since October 2001.

"Right now, it's about an eight-month mission," NASA administrator Charlie Bolden told reporters. "We'd like to cut that in half."

The United Arab Emirates plans to establish an academic space program as well as the first space research center in the Middle East.

The event was recorded at the close of the mission's 956th Martian day from the rover's location in Gale Crater.

The researchers discovered that the salty water beneath the Taylor Valley stretched from the coast to at least 7.5 miles beneath the surface.

Scientists examined the red planet's temperature and humidity levels for more than a full Mars year.