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

NASA is quietly rewriting the script for human exploration of the Red Planet, turning robots from remote-controlled tools ...

The plan for the tourist camp comes as NASA wants to send humans to Mars. Mars-V is developing a Mars simulation tourist center in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert for 2029. Tourists experience harsh conditions ...

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 ...

A view inside the sandbox portion of NASA’s Crew Health and Performance Analog, where research volunteers participate in simulated walks on the surface of Mars. NASA is not quite sending astronauts to ...

Jeff Bezos’ aerospace company faces a pivotal moment Sunday as its towering New Glenn rocket prepares to launch twin NASA spacecraft toward Mars in only the second flight for the massive vehicle. The ...

Scientists have discovered 26 new bacterial species that survived the extreme sterilization protocols of NASA cleanrooms ...

NASA on Monday introduced the 10 people — selected from a pool of 8,000 applicants — who will join the agency's astronaut corps as it races to return to the moon before attempting an unprecedented ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover releases a new Mars panorama from Gale Crater ahead of solar conjunction, showing the Nevado Sajama drill site and recent geology and atmosphere studies.

A 62-page document written by President Donald Trump’s on-again-off-again pick to run NASA, billionaire Jared Isaacman, outlines a sweeping, ambitious, and at times controversial plan for the space ...