Ross Elder will lead a year-long mission in Houston, which will test him and his team in Martian-like conditions.

If it proves successful, CNTR could allow future vehicles to travel farther using less fuel. Traditional chemical engines ...

Imelda Muller, who graduated from Taconic Hills High School, is one of 10 people in NASA's latest astronaut class.

HOUSTON, Texas -- Starting Sunday night, a team of four volunteers will spend the next year inside a 1,700 square foot 3-D printed habitat at Johnson Space Center. The team is simulating what it would ...

NASA aims to travel to the moon again—and beyond. Here’s a look at the 21st-century race to send humans into space.

SpaceX’s Elon Musk says he will rocket Optimus bots on the first Starships sent to Mars, but a leading robotics scholar ...

NASA’s 10 new astronaut candidates are already making history. The 2025 class includes the first person to join the astronaut ...

Before we get to Mars, we're going to have to practice. And develop radical leaps in technology, but also practice. A Mars ...

With ally SpaceX, the Italian Space Agency is set to chart and safeguard future astronaut flights to Mars while testing tech ...

Musk wants to send the first uncrewed Starship to Mars by the end of 2026, followed by human spaceflights in the years after. The first humans on Mars would be tasked with laying the groundwork to ...

Elon Musk “says we have to go to Mars in case there’s a disaster here on Earth, and we have to put a million people on Mars by 2050, and they have to be able to survive even if the rockets from Earth ...