As a rocket revolution sets the stage for astronauts to explore Mars, advances in bioengineering could help them survive the ...

For decades, crewed missions to Mars have been framed as a distant dream, but planetary scientists are now converging on a ...

The goal should be a new golden rule linking the search for life elsewhere to the spread of life beyond the bounds of Earth.

The potential for sending payloads and people to Mars is therefore becoming plausible in a way that it never has before. Mars ...

In 2026, there will be journeys to the moon and Mars, new visions of the cosmos and a solar eclipse that might be worth ...

For years, popular culture has treated a human settlement on Mars as an almost inevitable next chapter, a matter of engineering and willpower rather than fundamental limits. Astrophysicist Neil ...

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Yesterday, with a single slam of a gavel, Elon Musk got almost 14 percent closer to being a trillionaire.

GWYNNE DYER Elon Musk promised to build a spaceship that would put people and cargo into Earth orbit at one-hundredth of the current cost per kilo and even enable human beings to create a ...

The best reason to send humans to Mars isn’t for guts or glory—or the construction of colonies to safeguard against existential Earth-bound risks. Instead it’s to answer a single, simple question: Is ...

(Nanowerk News) The report, commissioned by NASA, identifies the highest priority scientific objectives for the missions as well as proposes four distinct mission campaigns designed to maximize the ...

WASHINGTON — A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine identifies the highest priority science objectives for the first human mission to Mars, and says searching ...