Mars holds a special place in the solar system. It represents marginal habitability. This means it transitioned from warm and ...

Elon Musk's SpaceX is a company that's experienced both lots of success and lots of failure, but will their planned private ...

Scientists have broadly agreed for years that the thousands of small cone-shaped mounds peppering Mars’ northern lowlands are ...

Scientists believe that future human settlements on Mars may rely on metals extracted from asteroids for construction.

Earth–Venus–Mars opportunity looks promising. 10–15 on-orbit refueling operations may be needed to make a crewed ship full.

A new study suggests Mars could help scientists understand how alien worlds evolve by showing how a once warmer, wetter ...

NASA’s Psyche mission to investigate a metal-rich asteroid captured rare glimpses of Mars during a recent flyby.

A researcher says he found a possible shortcut to Mars that would halve the time it takes to travel to the planet and back to less than a year.

NASA took advantage of the recent close approach of the Psyche probe to Mars to calibrate its observation instruments.

Engineers are increasingly turning to the concept of "biomimicry" for the next generation of Mars robots.

You're on the fourth human mission to Mars, and you've been tasked with establishing the first self-sustaining food crop on a Martian settlement. You're nervous because you're using a new type of ...

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft flew past Mars on its way to a strange metal-rich world that may reveal secrets about Earth’s ancient planetary formation past.