If all goes according to plan, MMX will arrive in orbit around Mars in 2027 to begin mapping and analyzing Phobos and Deimos and search for a landing site. MMX will then land on P

These findings do not confirm past life but indicate Mars once had the right chemistry to support it. We're getting closer and closer to definitely answering the question: Did life ever exist on Mars?

Following a December 2025 executive order prioritizing “American space superiority,” NASA is advancing nuclear

NASA confirmed Thursday that SpaceX will launch the European Space Agency’s Rosalind Franklin Mars rover, perhaps as soon as late 2028, on a Falcon Heavy rocket from Kennedy Space Center, Florida. So why is NASA deciding which rocket will launch a flagship European Mars mission?

Tianwen-3, China's first attempt to retrieve samples from another planet, is expected to mark a major leap in the country's deep-space capabilities, building on the success of its earlier Tianwen-1 mission.

A new study into a sample collected by the Curiosity rover on Mars back in 2020 revealed the presence of 21 carbon-containing molecules, including 7 new ones.

"This experiment's never been run before on another world," said Amy Williams, an astrobiologist working on the Curiosity mission.

The most powerful thing we could do is establish a second, self-sustaining civilization outside of Earth,” Elon Musk, SpaceX’s CEO, told Forbes in 2003, a year after founding the company. “And the only place that’s really feasible is Mars.

Some Earth-based microbes may be tougher than expected, raising new questions about survival beyond our planet.

Four astronauts — Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen — are circling Earth aboard the Orion spacecraft right now, and the data streaming back from their Artemis II mission is already reshaping NASA’s plans for the Moon and Mars.