What everyone agrees on is that NASA needs a new spacecraft capable of relaying communications from Mars to Earth. This issue has become especially acute with the recent loss of NASA’s MAVEN ...

NASA has launched the Mars to Table Challenge, seeking Earth-independent food systems capable of sustaining astronauts on ...

On the outskirts of Houston, four people have been living a version of the future that most of us only see in science fiction. For more than a year, they have been sealed inside a mock Martian base, ...

NASA's plans for Mars sample return are effectively cancelled as part of a bill approved by the U.S. Congress, ending efforts ...

As NASA fosters technologies needed to live and work farther away from home than ever before, the agency’s Technology Transfer program.

NASA is moving into a new phase of space exploration, with major progress across human spaceflight, science missions, and ...

Artist's concept of NASA astronauts on Mars. Credit: NASA HOUSTON—NASA’s top priorities for future Mars exploration missions should be the search for current or past evidence for biological activity ...

"It's really not a question of robotic exploration or human exploration," Ehlmann said. "It is an 'and' — it's robotic and human exploration and how we do these best together." When you purchase ...

NASA is quietly ending financial support for independent planetary science advisory groups, according to a letter posted to the agency’s website on January 16. The affected groups have historically ...