For decades, the case for sending people to Mars has rested on a mix of romance, rivalry, and raw curiosity. Now a cluster of ...

When astronauts set foot on Mars, it will be one of humanity’s greatest milestones, marking the start of a new era of ...

Elon Musk has repeatedly said he plans to put humans on Mars, yet the gap between that vision and reality remains wide. The ...

The search for past or present life should be the top science objective of future human missions to Mars, a new National ...

The report’s authors outline 11 science priorities for future crewed missions to Mars, ranging from searching for resources ...

A consortium of American scientists and engineers filed a report that stridently makes the case for putting boots down on ...

The blueprint outlines the equipment, landing-site criteria and environmental constraints that will determine what is ...

Mars is rich in ice, both on and under its surface—with more predicted to lie farther below its dusty exterior. If future ...

A major new report suggests that searching for evidence of life should be the main scientific objective for the first human missions to Mars.

The three astronauts on the mission to be the first humans on Mars don’t even get to the surface before the trouble starts. They enter the Martian atmosphere wrong, half crash-land in a spot not quite ...

NASA reported 2025 achievements in lunar, Mars, and Earth science missions, including Artemis II preparations, CLPS landers, Mars ESCAPADE, ISS research, heliophysics, and new astronaut candidates.