There are a few notable elements to NASA’s launch this week of a new mission to Mars, known as Escapade. There’s the matter ...

Tourists who are looking for an "extreme adventure" trip may be able to wed their desire for unique travel with a fascination for space in a few years. The experience is part of a venture called "MARS ...

Envision a time when hundreds of spacecraft are exploring the solar system and beyond. That's the future that NASA's ESCAPADE, or escape and plasma acceleration and dynamics explorers, mission will ...

HOUSTON, Texas -- Starting Sunday night, a team of four volunteers will spend the next year inside a 1,700 square foot 3-D printed habitat at Johnson Space Center. The team is simulating what it would ...

SpaceX owner Elon Musk said he is pushing to make the human race multiplanetary to provide it insurance, specifically to save it from being “incinerated” by the sun. Musk said he wants to travel to ...

A trip to Mars would be the adventure of a lifetime. Just ask the 78,000-plus people who signed up to move there, as part of Mars One’s hypothetical colonization project. But it would also be really, ...

Bypassing the moon and sending crews straight to Mars would be a serious error. Credit: NASA We’ve observed with concern a rising trend in human spaceflight ...

Elon Musk announced at Starbase, Texas, that SpaceX aims to launch its first uncrewed mission to Mars by late next year using the fully reusable Starship system. His long-term goal is to build a ...