A new ISS study using mice reveals that Mars’ weaker gravity could cause significant muscle loss in astronauts, threatening mission performance and health. Researchers found that 0.33g, close to ...

Mice flown aboard the International Space Station and exposed to Mars-like gravity for roughly a month showed only partial protection against muscle deterioration, according to a peer-reviewed study ...

Mars is half the size of Earth, with one-tenth of our planet’s mass, and at the nearest point in its orbit is over 33 million miles away. Yet new research highlights the extraordinary influence the ...

Developed in partnership with Cambrian College, the custom Gravity Chairs allow visitors to physically experience the ...

The Red Planet's low gravity and lack of magnetic field makes its outermost atmosphere an easy target to be swept away by the solar wind, but new evidence from ESA's Mars Express spacecraft shows that ...

How does Mars influence Earth’s climate cycles? This is what a recent study published in the Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific hopes to address as a trio of researchers from the ...