NASA's Sharmila Bhattacharya anticipates humans setting foot on Mars by 2040, contingent on sustained global investment in space exploration.

To send people to Mars and return them safely to Earth, NASA has developed a new, very powerful launch vehicle called the Space Launch System and a new human carrier spacecraft called Orion.

How will NASA get to Mars? The journey will start with the Artemis program, which has the goal of establishing the first long-term human outpost on the moon. From there, NASA "will use what we ...

The Mars Sample Return mission has been ranked as the highest priority by planetary scientists, who hope to find signs of ancient life on Mars.

The White House’s budget plan for NASA would be woefully inadequate for achieving near-term human voyages to Mars, experts say ...

As the administration slashes spending on science, NASA is running low on new missions.

NASA has a multi-year plan to establish the first long-term presence on the Moon. The knowledge gained from that will lead NASA to take the next giant leap: sending the first astronauts to Mars.

One of the great unsolved problems in modern planetary science is written on the surface of Mars. Mars has canyons that were ...

Aerospace giant Lockheed Martin offered to "execute Mars Sample Return (MSR) as a firm-fixed price solution for under $3 ...

Blue Origin has been mum about the payload that will fly on this rocket, but multiple people have told Ars that the current ...

Three NASA space missions supported by teams at the University of Colorado Boulder, including the more than decade-old MAVEN mission to Mars, may be canceled in October as part of funding cuts ...