Mars is cold, has a very strong radiation environment, no magnetic field, a very low-pressure atmosphere and it’s all carbon dioxide, so you can’t breathe there. And there are no nutrients to grow ...

Human crews headed for Mars are still looking at journeys that last most of a year, long enough for radiation, boredom and ...

Thursday, NASA launched its latest spacecraft to Mars, a $2.7 billion mission to explore the planet's minerals and look for signs of life. Mars is now the focus of an interplanetary space race ...

A new report published Tuesday, titled “A Science Strategy for the Human Exploration of Mars,” represents the answer from ...

Dean gets to the root of this question with guest Oliver Morton, Senior Editor for The Economist and author of the book The Moon: A History for the Future. They discuss Musk's likelihood for a Mars ...

"The exploration of the moon is going to be a continuous activity." SYDNEY — Leaders of the world's major space agencies shared visions for space in the coming years at a major space congress in ...

This article originally appeared on The Conversation. Envision a time when hundreds of spacecraft are exploring the solar system and beyond. That’s the future that NASA’s ESCAPADE, or Escape and ...

InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) is a NASA Discovery Program mission that will place a single geophysical lander on Mars to study its deep ...