Political momentum meets technical constraints Political shifts and international rivalries have renewed interest in crewed ...

A Southwest Research Institute scientist has updated Mars chronology models to find that terrains shaped by ancient water activity on the planet’s surface may be hundreds of millions of years older ...

Elon Musk has switched up his out-of-this-world focus, putting aside his Mars project to set up shop on the Moon. Musk’s SpaceX has long claimed that it will ‘colonise Mars’, though critics have often ...

Elon Musk announced a new, more realistic timeline for Starship launches toward the Red Planet. While it still sounds ambitious, the company is making progress with the world's biggest space rocket.

Scientists have been working hard to untangle the mysteries of water on Mars, from current-day concerns (what's under the southern ice cap) to the planet’s ancient past. A study using data from NASA’s ...

SpaceX's Mars Colonization Program relies on the Starship launch vehicle. Musk claims they will be instrumental in achieving his Mars goals. He has made several aspirational statements about the ...

The agency's shift of focus could mean turning to SpaceX's Starship for a mission to Mars in 2026. Reading time 3 minutes NASA is considering launching missions to Mars as early as next year in an ...

Time Magazine recently awarded SpaceX and Telsa CEO Elon Musk Person of the Year, and during the interview, Musk dropped a rough timeline for when he thinks SpaceX will land on Mars. During the ...