SpaceX has announced regular commercial cargo missions to the Moon starting in 2028 and to Mars in 2030. They will charge $100 million per ton. SpaceX is going to try to get refueling and launches of the SpaceX Starship developed so that they can send an unmanned test mission in 2026.

Scientists used simulations to show how astronaut personalities affect stress, teamwork, and success in Mars missions.

Blue Origin is moving closer to launching NASA’s ESCAPADE mission to Mars, a critical step toward understanding how the Red Planet’s magnetic field interacts with solar wind and space weather.

Simulation results highlight how team composition shapes stress, health, performance, and cohesion in long-duration space missions, according to a study published October 8, 2025, in the open-access journal PLOS One by Iser Pena and Hao Chen of the Stevens Institute of Technology,

New study shows Mars went through shrinking ice ages, revealing how it lost water and where future missions might find what's left.

As scientists get closer to putting humans on Mars, the need to understand why clocks tick faster on the red planet is more pressing than ever.

The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has been something of a mystery ever since it graced our solar system. From all outward appearances, the object appears to be a comet that originated in another star system and was ejected by gravitational perturbations.

"There is a timely and critical need to develop predictive tools capable of assessing and optimizing team composition, psychological resilience and operational effectiveness under realistic, Mars-like conditions," the study says.

ESA’s Mars orbiters captured images of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it passed close to Mars, revealing its bright, hazy coma. Researchers are studying the data to learn more about this rare visitor from beyond our Solar System.

A resilient gut microbe, Bacillus subtilis, has survived the extreme conditions of space launch and reentry - great news for astronaut health.