Here's one of the cool things you learn when you land a seismometer on another planet: Mars's days are getting shorter. Or to put it another way, the planet is spinning faster. That was discovered ...

For decades, one of the biggest challenges of sending humans to Mars hasn’t just been getting there, it’s getting back.

A round trip from Earth to Mars takes about three years. New research suggests a potential shortcut to Mars, inspired by an asteroid's orbital path, that would reduce the journey to as little as 153 ...

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