Also read: Unearthing Mars' watery past ... to a pressurized volume of 20 cubic meters in orbit. Looking ahead, Max Space plans to launch larger habitats, with a 100-cubic-meter module scheduled ...

This offers maximum simplicity but imposes great costs. By going to a two-size fits all Starship-and-Starboat plan to implement both Mars and lunar missions, 80 percent of these costs can be ...

Elon Musk has been committed to Mars exploration for years. As early as 2016, he intended to send the Dragon spacecraft by 2018. Although those plans evolved, Musk remains confident about landing ...

At the Code Conference in California on Wednesday, Musk reiterated one of his boldest claims to date, saying that, if all goes according to plan, SpaceX will start flying people to Mars by 2024 ...

NASA has unveiled its plan for its next Mars rover, "Mars 2020," which will collect samples from the surface of the red planet. Following is a transcript of the video. Since landing Viking 1 on ...