Primitive plants could survive and the sunlight that hits them, while weaker than on Earth, is enough for photosynthesis.

Elon Musk has repeatedly said he plans to put humans on Mars, yet the gap between that vision and reality remains wide. The ...

The search for past or present life should be the top science objective of future human missions to Mars, a new National Academies report concludes.

Mars' craters come from ancient collisions during the formation of the solar system. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell University/Arizona State University via AP NASA plans to send humans on a scientific round ...

Humans have long imagined life on Mars, though our understanding of the planet has changed a lot. Some of the US's earliest plans assumed humans could reach the Red Planet by the 1980s. Over the ...

Futurist Michio Kaku sees humans doing ballet on Mars and projecting their brains into the cosmos. And aliens? Oh, they're ...

Mars is rich in ice, both on and under its surface—with more predicted to lie farther below its dusty exterior. If future ...

NASA plans to send humans on a scientific round trip to Mars potentially as early as 2035. The trip will take about six to seven months each way and will cover up to 250 million miles (402 million ...

Even so, Musk envisions eventually building his space-based AI data centers on the moon and then launching them with an ...

The world’s most advanced deep-space capsule, the Orion, is set to speed astronauts around the Moon, a trek that could ...

A former chief historian of NASA reflects on the history and future of Mars exploration Roger D. Launius The original 'Face on Mars' image taken by NASA's Viking 1 orbiter that resembled a human face ...

Joseph Silk is not a fantasist or science fiction author. He holds a doctorate in astronomy from Harvard University and taught astrophysics and cosmology at Oxford University. But what he wrote in his ...