Scientists suspect iron meteorites might be able to resist erosion on Mars, which may explain why some appear perched on flat ground rather than embedded in craters. In other cases, a crater may have ...

Interest in Martian life had been spurred by a now infamous announcement from the White House lawn in 1996, when President ...

Liftoff of the ESCAPADE mission is now scheduled for Thursday (Nov. 13) at 2:57 p.m. ET. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — After a year of delay, NASA's next Mars mission is ready to launch on Blue Origin's ...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is reigniting his ambition to make humanity "multiplanetary," providing an update on his grandiose plans. While Musk has long dangled the carrot of travel to Mars and setting up ...

SpaceX is preparing for its latest Starship test launch Tuesday following back-to-back failures earlier this year — as Elon Musk hopes to have the rocket ready for a Mars mission next year. The ...

A proposed Mars helicopter mission would search for signs of life, water and future human footholds in a vast volcanic canyon network. The little Ingenuity drone proved that helicopters can play a ...

The resoluteness of NASA's ambitious vision to send astronauts to Mars—a round-trip voyage of more than a billion miles once limited to science fiction—appears stronger than ever, albeit not without ...