Could humans be heading to Mars in the 2030s? Here's how Elon Musk and SpaceX plan to launch Starship on a mission to colonize the Red Planet.

The United States space agency has pioneered planetary science technologies as the world's leader in climate research for ...

The executive order cuts down on regulations for commercial rocket launches, the kind that SpaceX conducts regularly.

This shift comes as the fate of several vital climate and weather monitoring missions hangs in the balance, with researchers ...

But Whitson’s comments notwithstanding, Trump is right. American should go to Mars, and the president and Congress should commit to launching that mission by sometime in 2024.

Learn how NASA’s satellite fleet helps provide weather Information for the missions on the surface of Mars. Credit: ...

President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House on Jan. 23, 2025. President Donald Trump says we’re going to Mars, but don’t start packing your bags just yet.

A landing is planned for the year after that. Trump's reference to Mars, but not the moon, in his inaugural speech had some in the space community wondering if this was a result of Musk's influence.

Mars was on Musk’s mind in the leadup to the inauguration, where he sat behind Trump and flashed a thumbs-up at the Mars line. In a Jan. 2 post on his X platform, he wrote, “we’re going ...

President Trump said Monday that the United States will be “going to Mars very soon” as he announced new cooperation between the U.S. and Japan in sending humans to space, though he did not ...