"How do you get to Mars when the launch vehicle is not necessarily going to Mars?" ...

Thursday, NASA launched its latest spacecraft to Mars, a $2.7 billion mission to explore the planet's minerals and look for signs of life. Mars is now the focus of an interplanetary space race ...

"It's really not a question of robotic exploration or human exploration," Ehlmann said. "It is an 'and' — it's robotic and ...

Mars is cold, has a very strong radiation environment, no magnetic field, a very low-pressure atmosphere and it’s all carbon dioxide, so you can’t breathe there. And there are no nutrients to grow ...

Fresh on the heels of the loss of his latest Starship vehicle, Musk gave a talk shared on X about making life multi-planetary and just how soon an uncrewed Starship could launch to Mars. He mentioned ...

Robert Zubrin, who has coauthored hundreds of papers and laid out several blueprints as to how to settle on Mars, told Agence France-Presse in an interview that Musk is "absolutely instrumental in ...

SpaceX's billionaire founder Elon Musk says that despite Starship setbacks, the space company hasn't taken its eyes off the ball — and that ball is big, red, and roughly 140 million miles away. In a ...

The potential for sending payloads and people to Mars is therefore becoming plausible in a way that it never has before. Mars ...