Elon Musk, founder and CEO of SpaceX, is building a massive vehicle called Starship in part to send humans to Mars. Will humans eventually build a scientific base on the Martian surface ...

This story appears in the November 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. If there’s ever been life on Mars, she could be the one to find it. To discover the earliest signs of life on Earth ...

As well, the moon may also be used as a forward base of operations from which humans ... potentially ferrying humans to the moon, Mars, and beyond. By moving into orbit with its Commercial Crew ...

2 min read This story appears in the December 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. Emily Briere is planning a mission to Mars. The 23-year-old aerospace engineering student aims to get a ...

chillin' in a Mars Ice Home; and a mushroom blooms. ByLori Cuthbert and Natasha Daly 4 min read These stories appear in the August 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. A creature that can ...

Mars has been born afresh in the human mind with each exploratory thrust. Now it was happening again under the astonished gaze of Ken Edgett as he sat at his computer, tucked away in a leafy ...

This story appears in the August 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Carl Sagan spent his childhood immersed in Mars. The future scientist, an avid reader of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s ...

I’m one of a team of more than 500 travelers exploring Mars from California with the ... reason it was selected as America’s first national park in 1872. Photographer William Henry Jackson ...

Like much of Mars, the butterscotch plain is inhospitable, empty, ancient, and, when it comes down to it, pretty dull. But a few hundred meters to the south, over a shoal of low, uneven hummocks ...

So too each rover uses its three-jointed arm to wield equipment including a camera and a tool for grinding into Mars rocks. Rock-breaking brings up the essential reason to muse over these robots ...