No single agency — not even NASA — can develop all the technologies and systems needed for sustained Mars settlement.

Here's your chance to live like an astronaut as NASA seeks volunteers to live in a habitat for a year simulating future moon ...

As part of plans to establish a lunar base, the space agency may send to the moon a spare test version of the rover — as well ...

NASA has officially ended the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission, six months after it lost contact with the probe. MAVEN was the agency's first program dedicated to studying the ...

Landing humans on Mars could teach us whether life ever existed beyond Earth, how planets change over time, and how humans can live on other worlds. By studying Mars up close, astronauts could answer ...

Where will humans go after Mars? Is Mars the end of the line or is it a steppingstone to somewhere else? If we “moon-to-Mars,” do we then “Mars-to-somewhere else?” These are curious questions that ...

A NASA spacecraft bound for an unusual metallic asteroid recently made a strategic flyby of Mars — and its cameras captured a rare perspective of the red planet along the way. The Psyche mission, ...

For NASA’s Psyche mission, the path to the metallic asteroid of the same name lies on the other side of Mars. The mission launched in 2023 and has spent the intervening years looping through the inner ...

Now that the Artemis II astronauts have circled the moon and come back safely to Earth, what’s next? At NASA, the country’s space agency, most eyes are focused on the moon. Private entrepreneurs who ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has discovered more building blocks of life on Mars after carrying out a chemistry experiment never before conducted on another planet, scientists said Tuesday. The organic ...

Incoming views of Mars usually show its dusty, tan-colored surface littered with rocks, a familiar desert-like world that has looked more or less the same for millions of years. However, a new image ...