The White House’s budget plan for NASA would be woefully inadequate for achieving near-term human voyages to Mars, experts ...

Mars has received considerable attention in the past few decades, thanks to the many robotic missions exploring it to learn ...

Nature explores the massive costs and challenges of sending astronauts to the red planet. US President Donald Trump last week ...

Elon Musk, who founded SpaceX in 2002, has a bold vision for sending Starship to Mars. Experts weigh in on what's realistic ...

Elon Musk is set to present SpaceX's updated Mars mission timelines at the Starbase facility. As SpaceX prepares for its ...

A crew of NASA scientists emerged from a simulation of Mars after over a ... The crew worked through challenges future astronauts could face on a manned mission, including "Marswalks ...

NASA is considering launching missions to Mars as early as ... whether NASA and its partners can meet these challenges. Regardless, the race to Mars is heating up—realistic or not.

NASA's initiatives to pioneer next-generation space technologies are also hit hard in the White House's budget proposal. If the Trump administration gets its way, NASA's Space Technology Mission ...

They also worked through challenges a real Mars crew would be expected ... on the other side of the habitat's walls, NASA said. Two additional CHAPEA missions are planned and crews will continue ...

NASA's Viking missions in the 1970s were groundbreaking, marking the first time humanity sent spacecraft to Mars with the goal ... This idea challenges the long-held notion that liquid water ...

The prospect is daunting and poses technical challenges. For example, mission planners ... to return a sample from Mars, and that the ultimate decisions about what NASA does will get made by ...

A NASA mission to test how living on Mars ... to see how the group could handle the various challenges expected to confront humans on Mars. The crew dealt with environmental stressors ...