NASA has tapped seven private space companies to study possible solutions for the ballooning costs of the Mars Sample Return mission.

Anca Selariu, a microbiologist who lived in the NASA Mars habitat for over a year, found her time inside "absolutely exhilarating." ...

Credit: NASA / CHAPEA “Just being a part of human space exploration, especially in the effort of getting humans to Mars, is an incredible honor to me.

Applications are open for NASA's next year-long mock Mars mission, which simulates the challenges crews may face during future expeditions on the Red Planet.

This week, the NASA Mars simulation mission CHAPEA began. Four participants are volunteering to live inside a 3D-printed base where future astronauts may dwell.

NASA's simulated Mars habitat, a 3D-printed structure located in the mock-Martian interior of a warehouse at the agency's Johnson Space Center, finally has its inhabitants. The space agency ...

Four small rooms, a gym and a lot of red sand—NASA unveiled on Tuesday its new Mars-simulation habitat, in which volunteers will live for a year at a time to test what life will be like on ...

The Chinese Mars rover Zhurong uses "inchworm"-like movements to free its wheels, a trait that NASA's Artemis mission has included in their moon rover too.

An artist’s rendering of astronauts working near NASA’s Artemis base camp, complete with a rover and RV. NASA Humans haven’t set foot on the moon in more than a half century, but NASA’s ...

NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter successfully completed a high-speed spin-up test, captured by the Mastcam-Z instrument on Perseverance, April 16, 2021.

Why NASA's manned Mars missions start with the moon Humans haven't been beyond Earth's orbit in decades. That's about to change. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011.

How Does a Human Mars Base Work? NASA In this awesome video, NASA outlined its vision for how a Mars colony could evolve after nearly 20 years of expeditions to the Red Planet.