Four volunteers will spend 45 days locked inside a 650-square-foot module at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston starting ...

Photosynthetic habitable zones' could exist beneath radiation-filtering ice on Mars, offering scientists another region in ...

"Unlike Earth, Mars lacks a protective ozone shield, so there is 30 percent more harmful ultraviolet radiation at the surface ...

If we’re going to live on Mars we’ll need a way to grow food in its arid dirt. Researchers think they know a way.

Even Mars rovers like to chase solar eclipses. On Sept. 30, NASA's Perseverance rover turned its Left Mastcam-Z camera toward the sky and photographed a solar eclipse from Mars, capturing the planet's ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has new insights into how Mars might have changed from a potentially habitable, water-rich planet to ...

SpaceX's Starship flew on its boldest flight test yet, a pivotal step forward for the vehicle that will take astronauts to ...

About the size of a basketball court with its solar wings unfurled, Clipper will swing past Mars and then Earth on its way to ...

The Europa Clipper launched Monday aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket propelling it on a six-year journey to reach its ...

Mechazilla, a giant metal arm, successfully caught SpaceX's descending rocket booster during fifth test launch.

Astronomer and author Brendan Owens examines the challenges of sending humans to Mars - and what the future holds for our study of the Red Planet ...

My hope and passion is to assist in designing the nuclear thermal propulsion engine that will take a crewed mission to Mars. Conventional chemical propulsion systems use a chemical reaction ...