NASA and private companies are competing to send humans to the Moon by planning future Mars missions. NASA, SpaceX and Blue Origin pursue their ambitious programmes to create a lunar base ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A test pilot and instructor from Edwards Air Force Base has been selected as one of four volunteers to take part in a yearlong ...

American space agency NASA announced it found a new way to allow the Perseverance rover to determine its position on Mars by itself.

Elon Musk is putting his dreams of colonizing Mars on hold and said his SpaceX rocket company will instead focus on building a city on the moon.

For decades, crewed missions to Mars have been framed as a distant dream, but planetary scientists are now converging on a specific region that could finally turn that ambition into a practical flight ...

Humanity’s path to Mars will not be paved by rockets alone. The harsh cold, thin air, and toxic soil of the Red Planet demand a kind of resilience that metal and machinery cannot provide on their own, ...

As one of four panels that will provide input to the steering committee of "A Science Strategy for the Human Exploration of Mars;" the Panel on Astrobiology will identify the highest priority science ...