Elon Musk just unveiled more of his grand plan for colonizing Mars. His rocket company, SpaceX, aims to land at least two cargo ships on the Red Planet in 2022 in order to place power, mining and life support systems there for future flights.
After spending eight months simulating life on Mars on the slopes of the Mauna Loa volcano, six "astronauts" emerged from their Hawaiian habitat to return to civilization.
The discovery of boron on Mars gives scientists more clues about whether life could have ever existed on the planet, according to a new paper.
InSight will do a deep dive into the Martian underground, putting two instruments onto the surface that will ferry information back from the depths.
His goal is nothing less than ensuring the survival of the human race by creating a “backup location”, and calls for some serious planning and architecture.
The United Arab Emirates has unveiled a new project that aims to establish the first inhabitable human settlement on Mars by 2117.
As NASA prepares to send the first humans to Mars, LIFE VR, TIME and 8i have collaborated and created Buzz Aldrin: Cycling Pathways to Mars, the world’s first holographic ‘archival VR’ project.
The research team has demonstrated for the first time that the radiation encountered in deep space travel may increase the risk of leukemia in humans. The average distance to the red planet is 140 million miles, and a roundtrip could take three years.
As outlined in a new white paper announced Tuesday, the Chinese government hopes to soft-land a probe on the far side of the moon by 2018 and send a robotic mission to Mars in 2020.
Boron, changing minerals offer evidence of a habitable lake and complex chemistry.
The growing space debris problem may have a flip side: What if we could recycle the junk for components of a mission to the Red Planet?
Live coverage of the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter and the Schiaparelli lander arriving at Mars.
If successful, the October 19th landing would be a historic first for Europe
In December, NASA put out a call for adventurers interested in interplanetary exploration. A vast pool of applications will be cut to 120 finalists, who will vie to become part of NASA’s next class of eight to 12 astronauts.
In October, the joint ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars 2016 mission will land the Schiaparelli rover on the Red Planet. Here's where the probe is scheduled to land, and why researchers chose this particular area.
