For decades, crewed missions to Mars have been framed as a distant dream, but planetary scientists are now converging on a specific region that could finally turn that ambition into a practical flight ...

Robert Zubrin, likely the planet’s leading strategist for landing humans on Mars, and then remaking it in the Earth’s image, predicts SpaceX’s colossal Starship will be the first spacecraft ever to ...

Mars has hosted a surprising number of robotic visitors, yet the question of where humans should touch down remains wide open. As engineers refine maps of potential Mars landing sites, one location ...

In a Twitter exchange on Friday, SpaceX founder Elon Musk said humanity's estimated timeframe for creating a self-sustaining civilization on Mars is two to three decades away from the first human ...

Back in 2007, I talked with Rob Manning, engineer extraordinaire at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and he told me something shocking. Even though he had successfully led the entry, descent, and ...