Colonising the red planet en route to creating “a spacefaring civilisation” has long been one of Musk’s driving ambitions — and a prime motivation for his building SpaceX into the world’s most successful space company.

Aside from Earth, no planet in the solar system captures our imagination quite like Mars. The Red Planet is one of the few places in our cosmic neighborhood where extraterrestrial life may have previously emerged,

New research suggests that temperatures on ancient Mars may have fluctuated between hot and cold periods through a relatively short period during its lifetime of billions of years. But these hot and cold spells may have been detrimental to life if it existed on the Red Planet.

NASA’s Perseverance rover has collected a sample from Mars that has textures “unlike anything we’ve ever seen before.” Known as “Silver Mountain,” the rock core has been sealed into a tube so it can be analyzed in labs on Earth in the future.

Orbital dynamics show that President Trump’s pledge to land astronauts on Mars couldn’t happen until 2029 at the earliest.

New research reveals ancient ripples on Mars, providing compelling evidence of long-lost lakes that once existed 3.7 billion years ago.

The Artemis program has been NASA's best chance to get "boots on the moon" again. But with the new US administration taking guidance from tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, who is focused on Mars colonization,

Paying homage to Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy of books and to the film Interstellar, our readers consider the upsides and downsides of genetically altering our future space explorers

Experts told Newsweek about the difficulties of reaching Mars as the United States faces complex challenges in space policy.

Bruno Mars poked fun in a cheeky post on Instagram on Tuesday while sharing his latest milestone on music streaming service Spotify. "I love the lore that I am a Las Vegas lounge singer in debt to the mob,

Bruno Mars scores his milestone twentieth top 10 on Billboard's Radio Songs chart this week as "Apt." with Rose enters the region, and as it does, he ties Lil Wayne's record.

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