For decades, the case for sending people to Mars has rested on a mix of romance, rivalry, and raw curiosity. Now a cluster of ...

We've walked on the Moon and live on the International Space Station, but Mars remains our greatest unclaimed prize. This ...

As humanity prepares to take its first steps on Mars, a comprehensive report released by the National Academies of Sciences, ...

The search for past or present life should be the top science objective of future human missions to Mars, a new National ...

A major new study lays out plans for crewed missions to Mars, with the search for extraterrestrial life being a top priority ...

If you were to stand on the surface of Mars in two years and look up to the night sky, you might see a bright streak flying across the heavens, followed a few minutes later by another. Rather than ...

If we're to land humans on Mars in the coming decades, we'll have to know what challenges await them when they get there. Enter M-MATISSE, a potential precursor to a crewed mission to the Red Planet ...

“This is a really important operational evaluation of human health and performance that NASA is doing in preparation to land the first humans on Mars. In CHAPEA, we mimic what is the Mars surface ...

If humans are ever to land on Mars, they will need somewhere to stay—a protective shell that can shield them from the sun’s ...

NASA reported 2025 achievements in lunar, Mars, and Earth science missions, including Artemis II preparations, CLPS landers, Mars ESCAPADE, ISS research, heliophysics, and new astronaut candidates.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has once again started the discussion about interplanetary colonisation with a fresh prediction about ...

If you thought 2025 was an exciting year for spaceflight, just wait until 2026. Here's a look at six missions that could define the year.