Scientists explain how robotic missions are helping prepare for human travel to the moon and Mars, focusing on radiation, water mapping, lunar dust, and space weather planning ...

NASA is backing a new generation of nuclear rockets that could compress the months-long journey to Mars into a sprint ...

A Dutch company is hoping to send a select group of brave astronauts to Mars Mar. 28, 2013— -- A Dutch start-up named Mars One is hoping to send a select group of brave astronauts on a one-way ...

A perfect March Madness bracket could win you a trip to Mars in the years ahead aboard SpaceX's Starship rocket. And in case you're wondering, yes, that's the same spacecraft that has made headlines ...

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has unveiled a plan to send robots to Mars, a move that sounds straight out of science fiction. Musk announced on his X account that the company’s next-generation rocket, Starship ...

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

This article is from the archive of our partner . Humans are 1.37 years away from traveling to Mars. No, we're not going to land on the Red Planet in 2014 — rather, that's the amount of time needed to ...

A trip to Mars would be the adventure of a lifetime. Just ask the 78,000-plus people who signed up to move there, as part of Mars One’s hypothetical colonization project. But it would also be really, ...

Humans can’t go on vacation to Mars yet — but they can go to Mongolia’s Gobi Desert, where MARS-V is developing a new ...