A Dutch company is hoping to send a select group of brave astronauts to Mars Mar. 28, 2013— -- A Dutch start-up named Mars One is hoping to send a select group of brave astronauts on a one-way ...

Tourists who are looking for an "extreme adventure" trip may be able to wed their desire for unique travel with a fascination for space in a few years. The experience is part of a venture called "MARS ...

NASA's ESCAPADE Mars probes embarked on a 'loiter' trajectory after launch, and scientists say that extra time in space could ...

SpaceX owner Elon Musk said he is pushing to make the human race multiplanetary to provide it insurance, specifically to save it from being “incinerated” by the sun. Musk said he wants to travel to ...

A trip to Mars would be the adventure of a lifetime. Just ask the 78,000-plus people who signed up to move there, as part of Mars One’s hypothetical colonization project. But it would also be really, ...

Millionaire space tourist Dennis Tito wants to send a married couple to Mars (and back) by 2018. Engineering and physiological hurdles aside (and there are many of them), a mission to Mars poses ...

They have treadmills and exercise bikes, but astronauts do not maintain muscle mass during long space voyages — a finding that suggests big problems on manned missions to other planets. In the ...