A newly identified region on Mars may hold the key to future human landings. Researchers found evidence of water ice less ...

Primitive plants could survive and the sunlight that hits them, while weaker than on Earth, is enough for photosynthesis.

The search for past or present life should be the top science objective of future human missions to Mars, a new National Academies report concludes.

For decades, the case for sending people to Mars has rested on a mix of romance, rivalry, and raw curiosity. Now a cluster of ...

Scientists in a recent breakthrough have discovered the most promising landing site for humans, aiming to prepare for the ...

Humans have long imagined life on Mars, though our understanding of the planet has changed a lot. Some of the US's earliest plans assumed humans could reach the Red Planet by the 1980s. Over the ...

Mars' craters come from ancient collisions during the formation of the solar system. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell University/Arizona State University via AP NASA plans to send humans on a scientific round ...

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 way and will cover up to 250 million miles (402 million ...

Mars is rich in ice, both on and under its surface—with more predicted to lie farther below its dusty exterior. If future ...

The world’s most advanced deep-space capsule, the Orion, is set to speed astronauts around the Moon, a trek that could ...

Futurist Michio Kaku sees humans doing ballet on Mars and projecting their brains into the cosmos. And aliens? Oh, they're ...

Even so, Musk envisions eventually building his space-based AI data centers on the moon and then launching them with an ...