The best reason to send humans to Mars isn’t for guts or glory—or the construction of colonies to safeguard against existential Earth-bound risks. Instead it’s to answer a single, simple question: Is ...
NASA is planning to send humans to Mars for the first time in the 2030s in a bid to finally discover if we've been alone in the universe. The space agency launched the Perseverance rover, which landed ...
Since Viking 1 landed in 1976, humans have studied Mars from afar, relying on rovers and orbiters to analyze the planet. But with NASA planning a human mission as early as the 2030s, that will soon ...