A Dutch company that aims to land humans on Mars in 2023 as the vanguard of a permanent Red Planet colony has received its first funding from sponsors, officials announced this week. Mars One plans to ...

A new study released by the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has set the stage for future human missions to Mars. Titled A Science Strategy for the Human Exploration of ...

NASA’s long-promised journey to Mars has often sounded like a hazy promise, safely parked in the “sometime in the 2030s” bucket. Yet the pieces now sliding into place, from lunar test flights to ...

When humans finally land on Mars, what should they do? A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine lays out the science objectives for a crewed Mars mission.

On November 13, NASA launched a new unmanned mission to Mars under the name ESCAPADE, short for Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers. The launch was met with fairly little fanfare in ...

Since Viking 1 landed in 1976, humans have studied Mars from afar, relying on rovers and orbiters to analyze the planet. But with NASA planning a human mission as early as the 2030s, that will soon ...