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The real reason you can’t return from Mars

What Happens to the Human Body on a Mars Mission? (It's Terrifying) Why is a trip to Mars a guaranteed one-way ticket? It’s ...
If you enjoyed reading Andy Weir's The Martian or Project Hail Mary, you should definitely check out these five other sci-fi ...
Gravity is a good thing when it comes to how the human body functions, and in a place without gravity - like space - it doesn ...
Two robots on opposite sides of Mars have each turned a slow, patient circle and photographed everything around them, producing a matched pair of 360-degree panoramas separated by 2,345 miles of ...
Over more than a decade at Mars, the orbiter revealed how the solar wind strips away the planet’s atmosphere — and why the ...
Despite dozens of experiments over the years, scientists still don't have a precise measurement for gravity's strength. Why is that?
Gravity may seem constant, but it actually varies across the planet—and one of the strangest places is Antarctica, where gravity is slightly weaker than expected. Scientists have traced this “gravity ...
The strength of gravity is different on every body in the solar system. Whether it's the crushing weight of Jupiter or the ...
It may seem like we are on the verge of discovering alien life. In 2025, a press release stated that we have the "strongest ...
The space agency announced that the MAVEN spacecraft, which has circled Mars for more than a decade, is being decommissioned. By Katrina Miller On Wednesday, NASA announced the end of a more than ...
Researchers have developed a new quantum theory of gravity which describes gravity in a way that's compatible with the Standard Model of particle physics, opening the door to an improved understanding ...