NASA has plans to send astronauts to Mars surprisingly soon, but their exact timeline is still rather vague for a number of ...

I've read that the planned crewed Mars missions will take six months or two years to arrive. Which is it? Could a longer trip ...

NASA hit a snag last year when the Ingenuity Mars helicopter crashed on the Red Planet. The space agency concluded that the crash was caused by the vehicle's inability to discern flat ground from ...

SpaceX is putting its longstanding focus of sending humans to Mars on the back burner to prioritize establishing a settlement ...

Long before any spacecraft can attempt a faster journey to Mars, scientists must first solve one of space exploration’s biggest challenges: propulsion. Chemical rockets, used to launch spacecraft into ...

Elon Musk has unveiled a bold – and detailed – vision for Mars. It starts with one uncrewed Starship traveling to the red planet next year and culminates with thousands of spacecraft headed there ...