Currently, Mars is exclusively home to robotic explorers, with no human presence on its surface. This video focuses on the ...

SpaceX tapped cryptocurrency billionaire Chun Wang to lead a private crewed mission around Mars and the moon. Here's ...

Landing humans on Mars could teach us whether life ever existed beyond Earth, how planets change over time, and how humans can live on other worlds. By studying Mars up close, astronauts could answer ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mars' craters come from ancient collisions during the formation of the solar system. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell University/Arizona ...

“This is a really important operational evaluation of human health and performance that NASA is doing in preparation to land the first humans on Mars. In CHAPEA, we mimic what is the Mars surface ...

A researcher says he found a possible shortcut to Mars that would halve the time it takes to travel to the planet and back to less than a year.

NASA’s new electric propulsion engine set a U.S. power record and could transform future Mars missions. The thrusters use much less fuel than chemical rockets while gradually reaching extremely high ...

A former chief historian of NASA reflects on the history and future of Mars exploration Roger D. Launius The original 'Face on Mars' image taken by NASA's Viking 1 orbiter that resembled a human face ...

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. NASA plans to send humans on a scientific round trip to Mars potentially as early as 2035. The trip will take about six to seven months each ...

Human imagination has long been fascinated by the possibility of space travel. As early as the 2nd century AD, the Greek satirist Lucian of Samosata contemplated voyaging to the moon and encountering ...

Colossal super-rockets being produced by billionaires Elon Musk snd Jeff Bezos are set to carry astronauts across the heavens in a new "Golden Age of Space Exploration" (Photo by NASA via Getty Images ...

HOUSTON—When it nears a planned landing at Jezero Crater in 2021, NASA’s Mars 2020 rover will engage new autonomous precision entry, descent and landing (EDL) technologies that could be applied to ...