When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Although concepts for crewed missions to Mars have gained popularity, NASA's actual plans for ...

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, ...

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

Andy Weir’s bestselling story “The Martian” predicts that by 2035 NASA will have landed humans on Mars three times, perfected return-to-Earth flight systems and collaborated with the China National ...

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 ...

Mae Jemison, the first woman of color in space, has an alternative view on the race to get humans on Mars: it isn’t enough. In October, President Obama penned an op-ed for CNN announcing a partnership ...

NASA and Nokia, the Finnish telecom, announced a partnership to put a 4G cellular communications network on the moon, a key ...

The United States is rushing to put nuclear power reactors on the Moon and Mars, and hopes to launch the first system by the end of the decade. Starship (pictured ...

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 ...

When it comes to the question of which planet humanity could one day call home, the obvious choice might seem to be Mars. But ...