For decades, crewed missions to Mars have been framed as a distant dream, but planetary scientists are now converging on a ...

Scientists have identified a promising site on Mars that could serve as the first foothold for human explorers, a pivotal development for long-term colonization plans. The discovery, made using ...

Robert Zubrin, likely the planet’s leading strategist for landing humans on Mars, and then remaking it in the Earth’s image, predicts SpaceX’s colossal Starship will be the first spacecraft ever to ...

"It's really not a question of robotic exploration or human exploration," Ehlmann said. "It is an 'and' — it's robotic and ...

Scientists explain how robotic missions are helping prepare for human travel to the moon and Mars, focusing on radiation, water mapping, lunar dust, and space weather planning ...

At no other time in history have we had the technology, the know-how, and the public enthusiasm to get humans to Mars. Orion is NASA™s spaceship that will take humans into deep space, but it needs to ...

In 20 years, you could be holidaying on Mars. That’s according to Elon Musk, who thinks one million Earthlings, some born from his own seed, will be living in dome habitats on the red planet. But ...

Mars looks familiar from afar, but surviving there means creating a protective oasis in a hostile world. Instead of shipping ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: NASA/Justin Holcomb Scientists are calling for the cataloging of human artifacts left on ...

New research explores how microbes could turn Martian soil into building material and support life systems, offering a potential path for constructing human habitats on Mars using local resources ...

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Colossal super-rockets being produced by billionaires Elon Musk snd Jeff Bezos are set to carry astronauts across the heavens in a new "Golden Age of Space Exploration" (Photo by NASA via Getty Images ...