The findings are the result of the ongoing studies performed by NASA’s Curiosity rover, which has been scouring the red ...

Life on Mars is a dream long held – and not just for David Bowie. The idea of settling on the Red Planet has been around for ...

The president’s Inaugural Address linked landing on the Red Planet with Manifest Destiny, but left many of the specifics ...

NASA will explore two different strategies for fetching Mars rocks collected by the Perseverance rover, and there's a chance ...

The first option will rely on the sky crane method, used for the entry descent and landing of the two rovers still exploring Mars. The second will utilize new commercial capabilities and partners ...

In his prepared remarks, Trump, a longtime backer of U.S.-led space exploration and exploitation, singled out Mars and left ...

We've passed Musk's earliest predictions for a Mars mission, but he's now suggesting we could be just years away from a crewed landing ... Can humans even live on Mars? In a perfect universe ...

This quip captures Musk’s unwavering commitment to making Mars colonization a reality while revealing the human side of his aspirations—a desire to explore, live, and leave a lasting legacy ...

Option one would use the same "sky crane" landing system proven with NASA's Curiosity and Perseverance Mars rovers, a smaller sample collection spacecraft, a smaller rocket to boost the samples ...

Dozens of samples collected from missions on Mars that could be used to detect ancient microbial life could be returned as soon as 2035 and as late as 2039, depending on the course of the next few ...

To learn more about these rocks, the study authors mapped a region of 19,300 square miles (50,000 square kilometers) using data from the Context Camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, a NASA ...