"A Mars mission will be the greatest undertaking that humans have ever done," said Volker Maiwald, an aerospace engineer from the German Aerospace Center (DLR), in an interview with Space.com.

this is the flight profile China is planning for its Tianwen-3 mission, now scheduled for launch to Mars in 2028. The downside of grab-and-go is that you get just one sample from one site ...

“And we will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the Stars and Stripes on the planet Mars ... with the Firefly mission on its way to the ...

Of course, there are a lot of “ifs” in there, some of them as large as the enormous Starship rocket that will embark on the ambitious Mars mission. The 120-meter-tall rocket, which comprises ...

Teams at ASU worked closely with the lab and their work on the Mars Perseverance Rover was halted during the evacuations. The teams are getting back to work, assisting with the mission to Mars as ...

But that’s what Musk, a billionaire space entrepreneur, wants to do. The SpaceX founder dreams of a Mars mission that would preserve human life beyond Earth, even if it costs hundreds of ...

"We will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the Stars and Stripes on the planet Mars," Trump said. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, a longtime proponent of ...

One hundred people were due to take a one-way trip to Mars in 2023 — and, while some experts say it was a suicide mission, others say it may have helped push the cause of one day living on the ...

Plans to land astronauts on the Moon are already in motion, but significant financial and technological hurdles remain for a crew mission to put humans on Mars. But for a short time Monday night ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) wants to develop key technologies for a Mars surface lander by the ... ends as the capability progresses." The mission aims for a high-precision landing, but ...

Trump again promised to launch American astronauts to Mars. Seated nearby, Elon Musk, a political benefactor of Mr. Trump who founded SpaceX in the hope that it would one day be able to send ...