Mars has always felt like a distant neighbor, reachable only after a long, risky cruise through deep space. Now engineers inside NASA are sketching a very different future, one where a nuclear powered ...

SpaceX's mission remains focused on establishing a city on one of Earth's nearest neighboring planets. Musk's Starship will ...

The idea that humans could one day populate and even colonize Mars is one no longer confined to the realm of science fiction. Billionaire Elon Musk founded SpaceX in 2002 with the vision of paving the ...

Musk wants to send the first uncrewed Starship to Mars by the end of 2026, followed by human spaceflights in the years after. The first humans on Mars would be tasked with laying the groundwork to ...

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has yet again explained why Mars is a crucial mission for humans. His SpaceX ambitions include multiple ...

Decades before modern rovers ever reached Mars, NASA scientists were already imagining permanent human colonies on the red ...

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Bringing samples from Mars back to Earth is one of NASA's most ambitious goals. The plan goes back to the 1970s, with NASA's robotic exploration program, when the first spacecraft landed on the ...

NASA has opened a global competition inviting chefs, scientists and innovators to help solve one of the biggest challenges of ...

NASA has launched a global competition, offering up to $750,000 for designing a self-sustaining meal plan suitable for ...