The Mars Desert Research Station is nestled in among the red sandstone hills of southeast Utah, U.S., in a geological analog to Mars. Credit: Paul Sokoloff/Canadian Museum of Nature.

NASA's Mars Analog Mission's 100-day milestone inside the CHAPEA habitat marks a groundbreaking experiment simulating life on Mars, aiding future space exploration.

Space travel writer Heather Archuletta shares her own experiences as an analog astronaut at NASA—and the long recovery afterwards—going through months of arduous training for research. Read ...

NASA is readying to send astronauts to Mars by the 2030s and the agency's first, yearlong simulated mission took one giant leap toward making that goal a reality.. Marking the first completed ...

What exactly are they doing at the Mars analog research site in Utah's southeast desert? by Amanda Gilbert, KUTV. Thu, May 18th 2023 at 1:38 PM. Updated Thu, May 18th 2023 at 1:42 PM. 16.

The door ways leading to the Mars sand box from the work area in the Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog are shown at the NASA Johnson Space Center Tuesday, April 11, 2023, in Houston.

NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity acquired this image, looking southwest toward the distant large boxwork structures in the Uyuni ...

(CNN) — For anyone who has ever dreamed of living on Mars, NASA is seeking potential “Martians” for a simulated mission to the red planet. NASA is looking for people to live in its Mars ...

Finding potential evidence of life on Mars may be more difficult than expected, according to new research. Researchers tested scientific instruments used on Mars in Chile’s Atacama Desert, and ...

This can be seen in real-world Mars mission simulations, such as the Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (HI-SEAS) missions, which places crews of six people in a simulated Mars ...