For decades, crewed missions to Mars have been framed as a distant dream, but planetary scientists are now converging on a specific region that could finally turn that ambition into a practical flight ...

Robots are already rewriting the script for Mars. While human crews remain grounded by medical, political, and financial limits, machines have quietly turned the Red Planet into a testbed for long ...

As humanity prepares to take its first steps on Mars, a comprehensive report released by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and steered by scientists at Penn State lays out ...

What are the most ideal landing sites on Mars for the first human missions that can provide maximum survivability while also exhibiting the potential for finding life beyond Earth? This is what a ...

Elon Musk took to X to proclaim that SpaceX would focus on building out a base on the moon before sending humans to Mars.

Arthur Clarke, screenwriter for the blockbuster film "2001: A Space Odyssey," has been resurrected as an advanced OpenAI chatbot to help map out the transformation of Mars into a new Eden for humanity ...

As more than 120 million people tuned in to the Super Bowl for kickoff on Sunday evening, SpaceX founder Elon Musk turned instead to his social network. There, he tapped out an extended message in ...

SpaceX’s decision to focus on establishing a lunar city ahead of building a Mars colony represents a significant shift in Elon Musk’s space exploration ambitions ...