NASA’s long-promised journey to Mars has often sounded like a hazy promise, safely parked in the “sometime in the 2030s” bucket. Yet the pieces now sliding into place, from lunar test flights to private mega-rockets,

NASA has plans to send astronauts to Mars surprisingly soon, but their exact timeline is still rather vague for a number of different reasons.

On Sunday, Elon Musk said SpaceX is shifting its near-term focus to building a self-growing city on the Moon. Moon First, Mars Later: Musk Explains SpaceX's Shift Taking to X, Musk said SpaceX has already pivoted toward developing a self-growing lunar city,

In a breathtaking new view from the Mars Express mission, ESA has released an image of Flaugergues Crater, captured in a flyover video that provides a bird’s-eye perspective of the Martian landscape.