SpaceX has been teasing potential Mars plans for a while now, but the company just announced a launch date—and it’s soon. They plan to launch to the surface of Mars in 2018. Planning to send ...

SpaceX is teasing plans to send robotic Red Dragon capsules to Mars atop its Falcon Heavy rocket, starting as soon as 2018. The Red Dragon mission concept has been on the agenda for years ...

Artwork shows a Red Dragon capsule firing its thrusters for a Mars landing. (SpaceX Illustration) SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says he expects to see astronauts flying to the International Space Station ...

SpaceX announced its plans today to send its uncrewed Red Dragon spacecraft to Mars as early as 2018. The company first teased the vessel in 2015 with dreamy artist renerings of a Dragon craft ...

A mission that uses SpaceX's Dragon capsule to help bring chunks of Mars rock back to Earth for analysis could launch as early as 2022, researchers say. This "Red Dragon" project — which remains ...

SpaceX is likely spending about $300 million on its unmanned Red Dragon Mars mission, according to NASA estimates. The topic came up at a NASA Advisory Council committee meeting Tuesday ...

CEO Elon Musk says the Falcon 9 Heavy is powerful enough to take the fully loaded Dragon to Mars, provided it is not needed for the return trip. A lighter payload could make it all the way to Jupiter.

SpaceX's planned 2018 Mars mission could pave the way for a few different types of boot prints on the Red Planet. The California-based company aims to launch one of its uncrewed Dragon capsules ...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX just released a gallery of gorgeous new images of its Dragon spaceship landing on Mars. It’s propaganda, pure and simple, but it’s really great propaganda. The artist’s ...