So it is set to award $10,000 to the brightest design idea for building a structure on Mars that uses in situ materials, along with $2,500 for two second-place submissions.

More information: Jack Kingdon, 3 months transit time to Mars for human missions using SpaceX Starship, Scientific Reports (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-00565-7 Provided by Universe Today ...

Artificial gravity, nuclear-thermal propulsion, 500 days on Mars, inflatable habitats, using martian resources to manufacture rocket propellants - it's NASA's 2001 Bimodal Nuclear-Thermal Mars ...

The space agency put out a call to industry in April to propose ideas on how to return the Mars rocks to Earth for less than $11 billion and before 2040, the cost and schedule for NASA's existing ...

"Mars" tells a fictional story about the first humans to land on the Red Planet in the year 2033. Though we have yet to send people to Mars, researchers at NASA and other institutions have been ...

The British firm's low-cost design appeals to Mars One, which has yet to secure the funding for this test mission, let alone the estimated $6bn it requires to send its first four human citizens.

Our first story is about SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s ambitious plans to build a city on Mars by 2050. However, in order to bring his vision to life, SpaceX needs to figure out one key challenge first ...

Mars transit times using SpaceX Starship could be reduced to 90–104 days with optimized trajectories and current or near-term chemical propulsion, challenging the view that only nuclear ...