This article is a speculative piece based on the European Space Agency (ESA) Strategy 2040 plan for the future of space exploration. Dr. Orson Sutherland, a program manager responsible for Mars ...

Of all the challenges of sending people to Mars, there's one tiny problem which you might not think about but which could be a huge challenge: dust. The Martian surface is covered in a dusty material ...

For years, scientists have been looking for signs of liquid water just beneath the surface of Mars. The problem, though, is that the observations from various orbiting probes have been maddeningly ...

NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft, short for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN, launched November 2013 and entered Mars orbit in September 2014. After more than a decade of cutting edge orbital science, ...

The stars have always called to us, but right now, few calls are louder than the roar of SpaceX rockets piercing the sky. As Elon Musk and his team push humanity toward Mars, there’s a sense of awe ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kevin Holden Platt writes on space defense, SpaceX, ISS, Space War I American scientists envision creating a network of ...

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The resoluteness of NASA's ambitious vision to send astronauts to Mars—a round-trip voyage of more than a billion miles once limited to science fiction—appears stronger than ever, albeit not without ...