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

In 2020, NASA launched the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter as part of its Mars 2020 mission, hitching the small rotorcraft aboard the Perseverance rover. The craft touched down on Mars' Jezero Crater on 18 ...

In 1973, a covert mission known as Project Redsun sent astronauts to Mars—led by names the world already knew. Decades later, leaked footage and documents suggest the impossible might have happened.

While the world thought Apollo had ended, whispers of a secret mission grew louder. In 1973, astronauts and cosmonauts may have gone where no one admits—Mars. The Dumb Truth at the Heart of the ...

Mars is an inhospitable desert planet. Billions of years ago, things were different. In Jezero Crater, for example, fed by a vast river delta, there was probably a considerable body of water roughly ...

The ESCAPADE mission, which launched to space on a Blue Origin rocket on Thursday, breaks the mold of how planetary science ...

I t’s off! The Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) mission is on its way to Mars. It was sent ...

Blue Origin successfully launched a NASA Mars mission on the second flight of its New Glenn booster Nov. 13, landing the ...

Damian Bailey is supported by grants from the European Space Agency, SpaceX and Royal Society Wolfson Research Fellowship. He is Editor-in-Chief of Experimental Physiology and outgoing Chair of the ...

This article is a speculative piece based on the European Space Agency (ESA) Strategy 2040 plan for the future of space exploration. Dr. Orson Sutherland, a program manager responsible for Mars ...

(CNN) — Twin spacecraft are set to take off on an unprecedented, winding journey to Mars, where they will investigate why the barren red planet began to lose its atmosphere billions of years ago.