Countdown Continues Toward Mars Probe's Vandenberg Launch
Six years after last landing on Mars, NASA is sending a robotic geologist to dig deeper than ever before to take the planet's temperature.
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Six years after last landing on Mars, NASA is sending a robotic geologist to dig deeper than ever before to take the planet's temperature.
The space agency says it is working on creating a swarm of robot bees that will fly around the surface of Mars.
Elon Musk issued yet another incredibly ambitious timeline.
SpaceX chief Elon Musk confirmed the new, more distant route for his rocketing Tesla Roadster, which was launched aboard the company's Falcon Heavy from Florida.
President Donald Trump wants to send astronauts back to the moon.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has given more details about his plan to colonize Mars.
Europe's experimental Mars probe hit the right spot - but at the wrong speed - and may have ended up in a fiery ball of rocket fuel when it struck the surface, scientists said Friday.
A senior European Space Agency official says that the signal from the experimental Schiaparelli probe cut off before its landing on Mars, which he says isn't a good sign.
President Barack Obama sought Tuesday to reinvigorate his six-year-old call for the U.S. to send humans to Mars by the 2030s, a mission NASA has been slowly and quietly trudging away at.
President Obama wasn't sure if Leonardo DiCaprio was acting or just plain crazy when he said he's got dibs on the first manned space voyage to Mars.
If SpaceX founder Elon Musk's plan to establish a city the size of San Jose on Mars sounds like science fiction, then consider the name of his first passenger ship.
SpaceX founder Elon Musk envisions 1,000 passenger ships flying en masse to Mars within a century, "Battlestar Galactica" style.
Six scientists are close to wrapping up a year of near-isolation in a Mars simulation on Hawaii's Mauna Loa volcano.
It been over 40 years since NASA last landed on the moon, but a Mountain View-based start-up is set to bring lunar exploration into the 21st century.
NASA has published recruiting posters that encourage young people to think about colonizing Mars.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says if things go according to plan people will be on Mars just nine years from now.
Get out your telescopes. There's a close encounter on Monday.
Stargazers will get a treat for the rest of this month as Mars making its closest approach to Earth on May 30th.
A new discovery breathes more life into the case for humans inhabiting Mars. NASA researchers have found oxygen on the Red Planet.
Billionaire Elon Musk announced Wednesday via Twitter that he plans to send a Dragon capsule to land on the red planet as early as 2018.
NASA is actively working to get more women interested in space exploration and going to Mars.
A NASA campaign to recruit potential astronauts for a flight to Mars may have worked too well.
NASA is looking for its next class of astronauts.
Mars is on track to become the fifth planet in our solar system to have a ring on it when gravity shreds its crumbling moon.
NASA's Mars-orbiting Maven spacecraft has discovered that the sun likely robbed the red planet of its once-thick atmosphere and water.
