The race to Mars has quietly become the defining contest of twenty-first century spaceflight, pitting a state-backed Chinese ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Although concepts for crewed missions to Mars have gained popularity, NASA's actual plans for ...

Last week, the Trump administration released a presidential budget request that would cancel almost all NASA science missions in order to focus on putting humans on Mars. It's mainly a showy, ...

NASA’s Mars rover finds organic signals in mudstone that resemble microbial activity, sparking new debate over life on the ...

NASA and Elon Musk are racing toward the same destination, but they are not running the same race. While SpaceX talks in terms of the next launch window, NASA is quietly building a layered campaign of ...

Editor's note: All opinions, columns and letters reflect the views of the individual writer and not necessarily those of the IDS or its staffers. Rovers on Mars have made exciting finds and ...

NASA says its Perseverance rover on Mars has transmitted new imagery that forms one of the sharpest panoramas of the Martian surface to date, offering scientists valuable insight into the Red Planet’s ...

A mission called Mars Sample Return (MSR) is currently being cooked up over at NASA, and it's so incredibly complex and expensive that it has the agency's people running like crazy from place to place ...

After years of resisting the idea, Elon Musk is expected to take SpaceX public in 2026. The IPO could be the largest IPO in U.S. history, and has the potential to raise $30 billion. SpaceX is already ...

NASA and Nokia, the Finnish telecom, announced a partnership to put a 4G cellular communications network on the moon, a key ...