Earth and Mars are constantly moving, but don’t stay a constant distance apart. Plus, spacecraft don’t travel in a straight line to their destination.

A northern summer dust storm on Mars boosted high-altitude water escape, suggesting short-lived events may play a bigger role in water loss.

Just 13 months after declaring the moon "a distraction," Elon Musk has announced that Earth's nearest neighbor is now the ...

Elon Musk’s ambition to one day settle Mars appears to have taken a back seat for a rather nearer and more achievable goal – ...

How do you lay out a space station to accommodate life in zero gravity? That's one of the challenges facing Teague, a century-old design firm.

Elon Musk said "SpaceX has already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the Moon," despite Mars being his top priority until now.

After the Red Planet reemerged from conjunction — a period when NASA doesn't communicate with spacecraft because Mars is behind the sun from Earth's point of view in space — scientists began planning ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has achieved a major first by driving across Mars using routes planned by artificial intelligence rather than human operators. Credit: NASA. An AI just ...

The accomplishment demonstrates real potential for future autonomous exploration and real-time decision making.

NASA Mars Odyssey orbiter has been rotated to capture imagery of the Red Planet that would be similar to what an astronaut ...

NASA's Perseverance rover, launched in Florida, discovered bleached rocks on Mars, providing new evidence that the planet was ...