This story appears in the November 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. In winter the temperature at the poles of Mars can reach 200° below zero Fahrenheit. But make no mistake: The red ...

Refurbishment on the exterior of Mission: SPACE at EPCOT continues, as scrim has come down from around the planet Jupiter just in front of the ride’s entrance. For now, the large attraction sign ...

Mars 2020 is targeted for launch in July/August 2020 aboard an Atlas V-541 rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The first planetary science mission ...

Earlier this month, outgoing NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and other agency officials presented two possible plans for the mission, known as Mars Sample Return, for the incoming administration.

"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.

Moreover this Artemis project is touted as a precursor to human missions to Mars, the red planet, in the next 20 years — at a cost that your editorial (“Musk’s mission to Mars”, FT View ...

Instead, those first crewed missions to Mars will most likely just travel into an orbit around Mars. It would be an incredible achievement, but we’re not yet to a point where NASA can even begin ...

ESA join forces on life-hunting ExoMars rover — Mars missions: A brief history Launch windows to Mars are periods of a few weeks that open every 26 months — due to the relative positions of ...

SpaceX's Starship rocket is designed for such Mars missions (in addition to Moon landings), according to Musk. But the vehicle's seventh and most recent flight test Thursday suffered an in-flight ...

How inspiring would that be?” The SpaceX boss said last year that the immediate plan was to launch the first Starship missions to Mars in 2026. These uncrewed flights would test the reliability ...