US President Donald Trump has pledged to “plant the stars and stripes on the planet Mars”, China says it will send its first crewed mission to Mars within a decade, and Elon Musk wants people to ...

On day one of this administration, the president included his ambitions for Mars in his inaugural address, and again several weeks later to a joint session of Congress: “We are going to conquer the ...

NASA's beleaguered Mars Sample Return mission may get a reprieve from an unexpected source. Lockheed Martin has proposed a streamlined, lower-cost alternative that could slash the mission’s price tag ...

Beyond plans to return astronauts to the moon for the first time since the Apollo Era, NASA and other space agencies have their sights trained on Mars, Venus, and other deep-space destinations. To ...

NASA has tested a kind of super-fridge that may hold the key to any future crewed mission to Mars. Without the new cryogenic cooler, a ship to Mars would reach the Red Planet with empty fuel tanks, ...

A view inside the sandbox portion of NASA’s Crew Health and Performance Analog, where research volunteers participate in simulated walks on the surface of Mars. NASA is not quite sending astronauts to ...

NASA’s incredible Ingenuity helicopter spent nearly three flying across the surface of Mars, becoming the first aircraft to achieve powered, controlled flight on a planet other than Earth. After ...

NASA has a bold plan to send humans to Mars, but is it really possible? In this video, we explore the step-by-step strategy behind the Moon to Mars program, the role of the Artemis missions, and the ...

NASA and China are locked in an unprecedented competition to achieve humanity's first rocket launch from another planet's ...

An Air Force test pilot, a Space Force officer, and a Marine Corps F/A-18 pilot were named to the crew of a NASA Mars ...

NASA revealed the members of its 2025 astronaut class, the 24th group in the agency's history — some of whom may be among the ...