Elon Musk is taking the long view. The billionaire SpaceX founder has long said that humanity needs to expand its footprint ...

Wave-like soil patterns on the Martian surface match those found in Earth's cold, mountain regions, which could help ...

China has achieved a milestone feat, making the first-ever laser ranging measurement from Earth to the moon during the ...

James is a published author with four pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, strange science, ...

As an aerospace engineering professor, I study how drag affects the movement of spacecraft in orbit. Aerobraking, as the name suggests, is a type of maneuver that uses the thin air in space to apply a ...

Elon Musk reveals the chilling reason behind his urgent push to colonize Mars. With Earth’s future uncertain, Mars may be ...

Observers say proposed cuts to science and other programs undermine increased funding for human space exploration efforts.

Mars may be dry, dusty, and far from hospitable today, but new research suggests it once shared more in common with Earth ...

The most recent claim by Musk comes as he has pressed for years to travel to Mars, stating that humans have “several hundred-million years” left on Earth.

In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Dave Eicher invites you to head out the evening of May 5 to see Mars close to the ...

Musk says SpaceX vision for Mars will save humanity as he continues to push human extinction fears - Elon Musk claimed Mars ...

Mars, one of our closest planetary neighbors, has fascinated people for hundreds of years, partly because it is so similar to ...