As Mars discussions between the European Space Agency and NASA deepened in 2008 and 2009, the mission's launch vehicle changed to an Atlas V rocket built by US-based United Launch Alliance. Then, just ...

Toxic dust on Mars would make a future mission to the red planet extremely hazardous for astronauts and require significant ...

Elon Musk's ambitious Mars mission faces technical, logistical, and political challenges, raising doubts about its ...

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

Elon Musk announces SpaceX's Starship spacecraft could launch to Mars as early as next year, with human missions possible by ...

Thus, employing a Starboat as a sortie vehicle, a single base could support the exploration of a region 4,400 km in diameter, enclosing some 16 million square kilometers of land. Using Starboat as an ...

Airbus has won a contract to build the lander for Europe's first Mars rover. The UK firm has replaced Russia's space agency ...

SpaceX Mars plans face challenges after second Starship test failure SpaceX's Mars colonization ambitions encountered a hurdle following the explosion of its Starship vehicle during the eighth ...

The President of the Russian Federation's Commissioner for International Cooperation, Kirill Dmitriev, stated that the ...

SpaceX launched the first human spaceflight directly over Earth's polar regions yesterday — a days-long, privately funded ...

Outlining plans for living and working on Mars, the space agency is focusing on oxygen, food, water, power, spacesuits, ...