Dr. Dirk Schulze-Makuch believes his research into extremophiles in the Atacama could help NASA re-assess its search for ...

Elon Musk's father has predicted that SpaceX will successfully land on Mars within the next two years, marking a potential ...

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has long promised to make humanity interplanetary by establishing a permanent outpost on Mars.

A new video shows what it would be like to cruise over the surface of Mars, zooming in to the planet from orbit and into a ...

On September 29, 2013, SpaceX performed the first supersonic retropropulsion (SRP) maneuver to decelerate the reentry of the ...

China's Zhurong rover has uncovered intriguing signs of a prehistoric coastline on Mars. The geological features suggest that ...

Life on Mars may have been found — before it was accidentally destroyed during a NASA mission nearly 50 years ago, one ...

In “A City on Mars,” Kelly and Zach Weinersmith investigate what life would be like for humans on the red planet, arguing ...

Back in 2007, I talked with Rob Manning, engineer extraordinaire at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and he told me something shocking. Even though he had successfully led the entry, descent, and ...

Mars Pathfinder carried the first rover to Mars, using an innovative airbag landing system to bounce safely onto the surface. The Mars Pathfinder mission marked a groundbreaking moment in NASA's ...

In 1789, U.S. President George Washington declared Nov. 26, 1789, to be Thanksgiving Day. It was the first U.S. holiday by ...