There are many obstacles to overcome before humans can set foot on Mars, including problems surrounding launch mass and ...

The Artemis program has been NASA's best chance to get "boots on the moon" again. But with the new US administration taking ...

Orbital dynamics show that President Trump’s pledge to land astronauts on Mars couldn’t happen until 2029 at the earliest. And even that would be challenging. By Jonathan Corum The distance ...

Or, as NASA contends, it may take longer: The space agency puts the date in the 2030s, and then not to land on Mars but just to orbit it. At National Geographic, exploration of new frontiers is in ...

To date, only three space agencies have ever tried to land on Mars: NASA, the European Space Agency, and the former Soviet Union. None have a perfect record.

Though the agency's Perseverance rover started collecting Martian regolith four years ago, the Mars Sample Return program's rising costs have made it difficult for officials to land on a specific ...