MARS

Project Blue plans to launch its lightweight telescope into space by the end of the decade to take the first picture of an Earth-like planet.

The rover, which has already far exceeded its three-month-long prime mission, will drive down the full length of a water-carved gully onto the floor of the Endeavour Crater.

The European Space Agency's Trace Gas Orbiter will be placed in an elliptical orbit around Mars on Oct.19, while its Schiaparelli module would attempt to land on the planet's surface.

A team of researchers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has predicted that the next globe-encircling dust storm on the red planet may begin in the next few weeks.

The Lander Vision System, capable of assessing terrains and potential hazards, will guide the Mars 2020 rover during its descent to the red planet’s surface.

The rover, which has been poking and prodding the surface of the red planet for over four years, will now seek further insights into Mars’ water-rich history over the next two years.

The surface chemistry on the red planet “contributed dynamically to the makeup of its atmosphere over time,” the Curiosity rover found.

On Tuesday, the SpaceX CEO detailed his highly ambitious and long-awaited plan that seeks to establish a permanent human presence on Mars.

The SpaceX CEO detailed his plans to get to Mars in the future.

The SpaceX founder is showing off on Twitter again.

The simulated mission — comprised of two 80-day phases, one each in a Utah desert and the Canadian Arctic — aims to advance humanity’s knowledge of how to explore the surface of Mars.

Next week, in a speech titled “Making Humans an Interplanetary Species,” the SpaceX CEO will discuss his ambitious plans to establish human colonies on the red planet.

The iTech initiative, open to U.S. citizens, universities, organizations and businesses, will help NASA address challenges it is likely to face in its journey to Mars and beyond.

Elon Musk tweeted over the weekend that his Mars colonial spacecraft has a larger range than expected.

Photos recently released show a comet dying as the Sun melts it away.

Destination: Mars, a new "mixed reality" exhibition developed by Microsoft and NASA, opens at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex on Monday.

A new study suggests that Mars may have been host to microbial life for a much longer time than scientists had hitherto believed possible.

NASA's Mars Rover has new images from Mount Sharp, an 18,000-foot mountain within the giant Gale crater that was first discovered by scientists in the 1970s.

The spacecraft, which aims to understand how all rocky planets in our solar system, including Earth, formed and evolved, was originally scheduled for launch earlier this year.

A rumored new study would get rockets to Mars in record time.

NASA analyzed the ground temperature on Mars and found little water on the planet's surface.