The idea of a human mission to explore Mars has been studied repeatedly over the past 75 years. More than 1,000 piloted Mars mission studies were conducted inside and outside NASA between about 1950 ...

The Rosalind Franklin mission's chance of finding evidence of past life on Mars has been boosted by two studies that show that the rover won't have to travel far to find materials potentially laden ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance has uncovered rocks in a dry river channel that may hold potential signs of ancient microscopic life, scientists reported last week. NASA ...

The Perseverance rover sampled Cheyava Falls, a rock with "leopard spots," on Mars last year. NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS A rock sampled by NASA’s Perseverance rover from an ancient, dry riverbed on ...

STARBASE, Texas — During a presentation, SpaceX CEO and founder Elon Musk shared how he plans to use Starship to reach the planet Mars, and how in a few short years, there is a chance humans could ...

The reasons we feel attracted to certain people are not random. They are deeply rooted in the placements of two key planets in our birth chart: Venus and Mars. Venus is the planet of love, beauty, and ...

'We want to begin to learn how to live away from the Earth.' As NASA prepares to put astronauts on the moon in the next few years, the agency is thinking about "how to live and operate away from the ...

One small step for man, one giant step to discovering Martiankind. After years of searching, NASA’s Perseverance rover has discovered some polka-dotted rocks that may provide the strongest evidence ...

Different parts of Mars have different advantages and disadvantages when it comes to their available resources, just like Earth. The polar caps are likely the most valuable in terms of their water ...

A potentially huge discovery by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover will likely remain in scientific limbo for years to come. On Wednesday (Sept. 10), the Perseverance team announced it found possible ...

The spaceflight technology company, owned by billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is most famous for its human spaceflights from its rural Texas facility, Launch Site One. The process produces ...

When the Perseverance rover landed in Mars’s Jezero crater—a formation that long ago was Jezero lake—in February, 2021 it turned west. West is where the riverbeds, the deltas, the sites of ancient ...