When astronauts set foot on Mars, it will be one of humanity’s greatest milestones. These first steps will be the result of decades of research, engineering, and imagination coming together, marking ...

As humanity prepares to take its first steps on Mars, a comprehensive report released by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and steered by scientists at Penn State lays out ...

A swarm of spherical rovers, blown by the wind like tumbleweeds, could enable large-scale and low-cost exploration of the Martian surface, according to results presented at the Joint Meeting of the ...

NASA is turning a spacecraft filled with trash into a flying laboratory for future missions to Mars. According to the agency, ...

Key leadership roles in a major National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report released in December were filled by University of Florida faculty affiliated with the Astraeus Space ...

WASHINGTON — The search for past or present life should be the top science objective of future human missions to Mars, a new National Academies report concludes.

Four volunteers are set to leave a simulated Mars habitat that they've been living in since June of last year. NASA is concluding a yearlong Mars mission experiment — and four volunteers are set to ...

The U.S. space agency has opened applications for a 14-month mission. The goal isn't to study Mars, but to understand how the ...