For decades, the idea of people living on Mars has felt like a distant fantasy, limited by the brutal cost of hauling ...

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 ...

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 ...

"There are incredibly tantalizing samples in the Perseverance rover's cache that could revolutionize our understanding of ...

NASA says its Perseverance rover on Mars has transmitted new imagery that forms one of the sharpest panoramas of the Martian surface to date, offering scientists valuable insight into the Red Planet’s ...

Musk wants to send the first uncrewed Starship to Mars by the end of 2026, followed by human spaceflights in the years after. The first humans on Mars would be tasked with laying the groundwork to ...

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 ...