As NASA and the China National Space Agency plan missions to Mars, one major concern is how the planet’s weaker gravity will ...

NASA plans to launch a nuclear-powered spacecraft to Mars by 2028, a major step for deep space exploration and its planned ...

IRVINE, Calif. (KABC) -- The technological challenge of getting to Mars is a huge hurdle, but it may be biology that holds humanity back from venturing to the red planet. A new UC Irvine study shows ...

The UK Space Agency and Cambridge-based firm LinkGevity are working with Lithuania-based Delta Biosciences to see how ...

Inside a 1,700-square-foot, 3D-printed habitat at Johnson Space Center, the crew is living in isolation cut off from the ...

The biomedicine outfit BioAstra aims to send its researcher on a flight around the Moon, aboard the leading-edge Orion spacecraft, to chart genetic changes triggered by cosmic rays and to develop anti ...

Videos of astronauts on the Moon show them often bouncing across the lunar surface, helped by the fact that the gravity of our satellite is just one-sixth of Earth’s surface gravity. That experience ...

From Calle’s habitat, known as MDRS, the cotton candy sky against the red rocks of the Western United States “felt like Mars, ...

A newly identified region on Mars may hold the key to future human landings. Researchers found evidence of water ice less than a meter beneath the surface, close enough to be harvested for water, ...

When humans finally land on Mars, what should they do? A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine lays out the science objectives for a crewed Mars mission.