Before the first human boot sinks into Martian dust, an army of machines will have already been at work for years, testing ...

NASA is quietly rewriting the script for human exploration of the Red Planet, turning robots from remote-controlled tools ...

A newly identified region on Mars may hold the key to future human landings. Researchers found evidence of water ice less ...

"It's really not a question of robotic exploration or human exploration," Ehlmann said. "It is an 'and' — it's robotic and ...

“This is a really important operational evaluation of human health and performance that NASA is doing in preparation to land the first humans on Mars. In CHAPEA, we mimic what is the Mars surface ...

Scientists in a recent breakthrough have discovered the most promising landing site for humans, aiming to prepare for the ...

If humans set foot on Mars (as shown in this artist’s rendering), they will contend with a harsh environment. US President Donald Trump last week laid out one of the biggest challenges ever for NASA — ...

Scientists explain how robotic missions are helping prepare for human travel to the moon and Mars, focusing on radiation, water mapping, lunar dust, and space weather planning ...

Mars is rich in ice, both on and under its surface—with more predicted to lie farther below its dusty exterior. If future astronauts were able to access it, they could use that ice to build hardy ...

The potential for sending payloads and people to Mars is therefore becoming plausible in a way that it never has before. Mars ...

Futurist Michio Kaku sees humans doing ballet on Mars and projecting their brains into the cosmos. And aliens? Oh, they're ...

Arthur Clarke, screenwriter for the blockbuster film "2001: A Space Odyssey," has been resurrected as an advanced OpenAI chatbot to help map out the transformation of Mars into a new Eden for humanity ...