The billionaire is in position to speed up plans for a voyage to the planet, with a potentially huge impact on SpaceX.

With evidence pointing to serious kidney challenges, careful planning will be needed to keep crews healthy on space journeys ...

The surface of Mars is known for being an extremely cold, desiccated, and irradiated place. But as its many surface features ...

The Curiosity rover detected the largest organic molecules to date on Mars, which may be fragments of fatty acids, or some of ...

But Curiosity wasn't the only one with a geological mystery. At the same time, roughly 2,300 miles away on the other side of ...

Described as the “perfect space crop,” the nutritious and ready-to-eat fungus could be a key stepping stone toward fueling ...

This is what Mr Musk said he wanted to do last year. Then it seemed barely plausible. Today it looks next to impossible. Mr ...

Martian lake beds and deltas reveal the Red Planet’s watery past. But many puzzles remain, scientist Bruce Jakosky says.

Chains of up to a dozen carbon atoms have been detected in what appears to have been an ancient lakebed on Mars, contributing ...

Scientists analyzed a sample, which likely contained fatty acids, that transformed into alkanes during the heating process ...

A team of scientists just discovered the longest organic molecules yet seen on Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun and and a ...

World-renowned Greek astrophysicist Stamatios Krimigis says that a human settlement on Mars is a distant dream.