A switch to Mars would impact programs such as the moon-focused Space Launch System, a multibillion-dollar rocket that ...

NASA sees two paths for saving its beleaguered plan to retrieve materials from the Red Planet but won’t choose between them ...

Mars is an attractive candidate for colonization for several reasons. It is relatively close to Earth, with journeys taking ...

We're hurtling toward a new era of mega-rockets with enough power to send colonists to the red planet, but should we?

NASA has been committed to the exploration of planet Mars, and now scientists have decided to use nuclear fission energy as ...

The Perseverance rover has been collecting Martian rock samples since 2021, but NASA is still figuring out how to bring them ...

After an independent review concluded NASA's plans to robotically collect and return rock and soil samples from Mars could cost up to $11 billion, NASA "pulled the plug" and is focusing on two ...

Recent exceptional rock discoveries have only mounted pressure on NASA to solve the problems facing its Mars Sample Return mission, its plan to fly bits of rock, dust, and air collected by ...

This photomontage shows tubes containing samples from Mars, as collected by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover. The agency’s Mars Sample Return Program plans to bring these samples back to study ...

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has said that he wants to skip the Moon and go straight to Mars. In a post on X, he emphasised the ...