"We didn't anticipate big discoveries, given how extensively the planet has been studied, but we did complement Mars science ...

A permanent colony on Mars would be far more than a scientific achievement—it could transform the future of civilization on ...

The Psyche spacecraft flew by Mars earlier this year on its way to a metal-rich asteroid, capturing the images along the way ...

Four good people with the Right Stuff (plus two alternates) will be selected for the Moon and Mars Exploration Analog, or ...

On July 20, 1976, Viking 1—the first successful Mars lander in history—touched down on the red planet. NASA’s Viking Program ...

Half a century after the first successful Mars landing, Viking's greatest legacy may be the questions it taught us to ask.

In summer 2026, NASA will commemorate the 50th anniversary of one of the most consequential milestones in planetary exploration: the arrival of the Viking 1 and Viking 2 landers on the surface of Mars ...

The race to Mars continues as officials from NASA and SpaceX work toward the greater goal of sending humans to the planet for ...

Credit: NASA Titan’s resources could one day make Saturn’s largest moon a major outpost for deep space exploration. Titan is ...

A look at the science behind Elon Musk's goal of a million-person city on Mars, and why planetary scientists say terraforming ...

Along with other recent discoveries, the new finding from Perseverance boosts the case that Mars once hosted conditions that could support living things—but it isn’t a definitive sign of ancient organ ...

Before SpaceX existed, Elon Musk flew to Moscow in 2001 to buy a refurbished Russian ICBM for a mission called Mars Oasis — a small robotic greenhouse meant to grow the first plants on another planet ...