In the coming years, an unprecedented number of people will leave planet Earth—but it’s becoming increasingly clear that deep ...

“We had three different rockets from private companies launching in three consecutive days, and these rockets will be taking humans to the Moon and Mars - so we are lucky.” Blue Origin’s ...

Artist’s concept of Artemis astronauts working on the Moon. Credit: NASA HOUSTON—Human exploration of the Moon represents a “critical stepping stone” in NASA’s efforts for planned human ...

“And we will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the Stars and Stripes on the planet Mars.” Trump’s apparently ambitious approach to human ...

The world is entering a new era of space exploration where both robots and humans will explore the Moon and Mars. Driven by NASA and SpaceX, with significant investments from Elon Musk and Jeff ...

We have long been inspired by the idea that life could reside on Mars – human or otherwise. But fiction is getting closer to reality, says NASA’s former chief scientist, Jim Green.

His company has successfully launched and landed reusable rockets, developed the Starship spacecraft for deep-space missions, and set a goal of landing humans on Mars within the next decade.

Knowing for a while now that it's going to head for Mars and elsewhere, NASA started not long ago looking into nuclear power as a means to push spacecraft, more specifically into something called ...

The remarkable geometric structure, estimated to be 3km wide, was initially detected by NASA's Mars Global Surveyor's Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) several years ago. However, it has recently been ...