For decades, the idea of people living on Mars has felt like a distant fantasy, limited by the brutal cost of hauling ...

Last week, the Trump administration released a presidential budget request that would cancel almost all NASA science missions in order to focus on putting humans on Mars. It's mainly a showy, ...

NASA’s interim administrator, Sean Duffy, was fired up on Wednesday when he joined a teleconference to talk about new scientific findings that concerned the potential for life to have once existed on ...

The race to Mars has quietly become the defining contest of twenty-first century spaceflight, pitting a state-backed Chinese ...

Editor's note: All opinions, columns and letters reflect the views of the individual writer and not necessarily those of the IDS or its staffers. Rovers on Mars have made exciting finds and ...

A mission called Mars Sample Return (MSR) is currently being cooked up over at NASA, and it's so incredibly complex and expensive that it has the agency's people running like crazy from place to place ...

Could humanity be just a few short years away from its first cosmic pioneers stepping foot on Mars? If tech entrepreneur Elon Musk has anything to say about it, yes. The towering megarocket, composed ...

NASA says its Perseverance rover on Mars has transmitted new imagery that forms one of the sharpest panoramas of the Martian surface to date, offering scientists valuable insight into the Red Planet’s ...

Bad weather on Monday forced SpaceX to postpone the latest launch of its massive prototype Starship rocket, key to founder Elon Musk's dreams of colonizing Mars and NASA's plans to return astronauts ...