While NASA aims to land humans on Mars by the 2030s, one challenge stands out - radiation. The Red Planet lacks a magnetic field and thick atmosphere, leaving future astronauts exposed to galactic ...

For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that certain lichen species can survive Mars-like conditions, including exposure to ionizing radiation, while maintaining a metabolically active ...

And sometimes a robot rolls over a rock that turns out to be a revelation. That’s what happened when Mars exploration expert Roger Wiens, professor of earth, atmospheric, and planetary sciences in the ...

Mars, admitted as Audrey Ayanna Mars, is disbarred, and her name is stricken from the roll of attorneys and counselors-at-law; and it is further, ORDERED that the respondent, Audrey A. Mars ...

Mars may be our next great frontier, but it's not as welcoming as it seems. Without a thick atmosphere or magnetic field, the planet is bombarded with radiation from space. This raises a critical ...

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As space agencies and private companies look toward sending human crews to Mars, they'll have to find ways to mitigate the dangers posed by high-energy radiation from solar storms. The weather on ...

How will future Mars astronauts shield themselves from harmful space radiation? This is what a recent study published in The European Physical Journal Plus hopes to address as a pair of international ...

Ever dream of travelling to Mars? There could be potential health drawbacks if you did, including a hefty dose of radiation, a new study finds. A 253-day trip to the Red Planet would expose an ...

The same gigantic sunspot that was responsible for triggering a historic geomagnetic storm on Earth in mid-May whipped up a legendary one for Mars a few days later. On May 20, data from Europe's ...

The solar storms that gave rise to the hugely impressive auroras seen around the world on May 10 also gave Mars a lashing, sparking auroras over the Red Planet and dousing the surface with harmful ...