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.

"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.

“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 ...

Mars spacecraft teamed up with an AI model to find a new impact crater on on the Martian surface, changing our understanding ...

NASA is developing a groundbreaking spacecraft concept designed to revolutionize Mars travel. The ambitious plan involves ...

A number of samples from the planet have been collected as part of NASA's Mars 2020 mission, aimed at getting a better understanding of the planet's geological processes and history as well as to ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has collected a sample from the planet that the space agency has described as "unlike anything we've ever seen before." It is the 26th sample from the rover and it ...