A serendipitous solar outburst let scientists point the robot’s cameras toward the Red Planet’s sky to spot a feature shared with our Blue Marble.

NASA is considering launching missions to Mars as early as next year in an effort to expedite its plan to land astronauts on the Red Planet. The surprise shift of focus comes less than a week after the U.S. administration released its proposed budget for the agency, which emphasizes the national goal of landing a human on Mars.

The optimal launch windows for these mission occur every 26 months ... were discovered on Mars. SpaceX’s Starship is the most advanced and ambitious attempt ever made to enable Mars colonization.

The White House proposed cuts for all NASA programs except "Human Space Exploration," boosted by $647 million, with more than $1 billion for Mars programs.

Peggy Whitson, former NASA astronaut and director of human spaceflight at Axiom Space, will command the commercial mission, while ISRO astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla will serve as pilot. The two mission specialists are ESA project astronaut Slawosz Uznanski-Wisniewski of Poland and Tibor Kapu of Hungary.

The Donald Trump administration's budget proposal has sparked concerns at NASA as it could lead to cancellation of several major missions. One of these missions is the Mars Sample Return which has been labelled as "low priority" and "unaffordable" as it is "grossly over budget."

How working as a guide in the Arctic Circle led Australian adventurer Eric Philips to be invited to take part in an historic space expedition.

In an interview with Fox News, Elon Musk shared that as part of SpaceX's 'Occupy Mars mission', he aims to establish a self-sustaining colony on the Red Planet.