Musk’s announcement of a mission to Mars comes during an exciting week for SpaceX. On Friday, SpaceX and NASA launched a crew headed for the International Space Station (ISS) with astronauts who ...

This story appears in the November 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. In winter the temperature at the poles of Mars can reach 200° below zero Fahrenheit. But make no mistake: The red ...

Musk—who has a history of setting unrealized goals for his companies—says he wants to send humans to Mars by 2029, though he ...

Musk has said that the coming Mars mission would carry the Tesla humanoid robot "Optimus", which was shown to the public last year. Musk said the robot would one day be able to perform everyday ...

Scrim on planet Earth, globs of concrete in mosaics, and no changes to Mars — the years-long refurbishment of the Mission: SPACE exterior at EPCOT continues. In May 2023, we noted that the large ...

A space probe named Hera captured images of Mars' small Deimos moon while on a mission to examine an asteroid.

As far as plans of sending Optimus to Mars are concerned, they are more likely a technical showcase. Whether Starship is able to perform a successful uncrewed mission to Mars by the end of 2026 is ...

The Starship mission to Mars will also include Optimus, the humanoid robot developed by Tesla. Musk has previously hinted that Optimus will be capable of performing menial tasks in factories and ...

A space exploration mission to study an asteroid that NASA deliberately crashed a spacecraft into three years ago has taken stunning bonus images of Mars and its moon Deimos en route to its final ...