What everyone agrees on is that NASA needs a new spacecraft capable of relaying communications from Mars to Earth. This issue has become especially acute with the recent loss of NASA’s MAVEN ...

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has yet again explained why Mars is a crucial mission for humans. His SpaceX ambitions include multiple ...

On November 13, NASA launched a new unmanned mission to Mars under the name ESCAPADE, short for Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers. The launch was met with fairly little fanfare in ...

A new study released by the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has set the stage for future human missions to Mars. Titled A Science Strategy for the Human Exploration of ...

A Mars spacecraft has now been AWOL for more than a month. But NASA hasn't given up hope of restoring contact with the MAVEN ...

MAVEN was built to last in orbit until 2030 — that's not looking likely anymore.

For nearly a month, NASA has been scrambling to make contact with a spacecraft in orbit around Mars that abruptly fell silent. The space agency lost communication with the MAVEN probe (short for Mars ...

The Scobee Education Center at San Antonio College is part of a nonprofit network of mini-space camps created by the families ...

Learn more about the hunt for bacteria on Mars and how astronauts will need to make sure they aren't bringing any dormant ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Mars spacecraft that has been orbiting the red planet for more than a decade has now been AWOL for more than a month. NASA first ...