Inside a Utah desert facility preparing humans for life on MarsBy James BennettJuly 5, 2025 Hidden among the majestic canyons of the Utah desert, about 7 miles from the nearest town, is a small research facility meant to prepare humans for…
China’s Tianwen-3 Mission Could Beat the U.S. in the Race to Grab Mars RocksBy James BennettJuly 3, 2025 On May 14, 2021, China’s Tianwen-1 lander plummeted from space to streak through the skies above Mars’s vast plain of Utopia Planitia, with an aeroshell protecting…
Starwatch: the meeting of a star, the planet Mars and our moon | AstronomyBy James BennettJune 24, 2025 Following last week’s conjunction between Regulus and Mars, the moon now gets in on the act. This meeting of a star, a planet and a moon…