A new paper released today documents the first soil, airfall dust, and rock fragment samples collected by NASA for return ...

His company has successfully launched and landed reusable rockets, developed the Starship spacecraft for deep-space missions, and set a goal of landing humans on Mars within the next decade.

Trump’s pledge to go to Mars without mentioning the moon has caused some head-scratching and even consternation in the media.

Funding both options would likely mean that neither ever happens. Of course, the Mars mission would be easier if the gateway was already present at the moon. The timelines involved here are important.

this is the flight profile China is planning for its Tianwen-3 mission, now scheduled for launch to Mars in 2028. The downside of grab-and-go is that you get just one sample from one site ...

He also told me that I would get to Mars one day. The mission will be completed. Brian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog ...

"A Mars mission will be the greatest undertaking that humans have ever done," said Volker Maiwald, an aerospace engineer from the German Aerospace Center (DLR), in an interview with Space.com.

The trip to Mars and back is not one for the faint of ... NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate awarded the MARVL project through the Early Career Initiative, giving the team two years ...

“And we will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the Stars and Stripes on the planet Mars ... with the Firefly mission on its way to the ...

After all, humanity has yet to return to the moon, following repeated delays to NASA's Artemis 2 mission. So, is it even feasible to go from where we are now to putting bootprints in the red Martian ...

SpaceX's Starship rocket is designed for such Mars missions (in addition to Moon landings), according to Musk. But the vehicle's seventh and most recent flight test Thursday suffered an in-flight ...