Building a Mars Base Is a Terrible Idea, So Let’s Do It Anyway. Explore the enormous engineering challenges of building a ...

Why water ice is suddenly central to Mars base design For decades, mission concepts treated water as something to ship or mine in small quantities, but the emerging architecture for Mars assumes it ...

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman outlined plans for nuclear propulsion, a moon base and eventual astronaut missions to Mars.

As the Orion, the world’s most advanced deep-space capsule, counts down to circumnavigating the Moon, that trek could be the forerunner to a cascade of Mars missions in the 2030s. Shown here is a ...

NASA unveiled a new vision for its near-term future Tuesday, including construction of a complete moon base, a major increase in robotic missions and a nuclear-powered spacecraft to bring a slew of ...

Elon Musk says SpaceX has shifted its near-term priorities from Mars settlement plans to building what he called a "self-growing city on the Moon," arguing the lunar target is faster and more ...

NASA plans to invest $20 billion over the next seven years to develop a base on the surface of the moon, the latest major strategy shakeup aimed at enabling humans to live on the lunar surface ...