Bruce Jakosky is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder and University of Washington, has almost 50 years’ experience as a Mars researcher, and was the Principal Investigator of the MAVEN spacecraft mission that has been orbiting and exploring Mars for more than ten years.

Jared Isaacman, the billionaire nominated twice to lead the agency, may draw some lessons from the tenure of another NASA leader in the 1990s.

Isaacman’s second task would be to make sure America wins that second race. Some, such as former NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, have suggested that China is likely to beat America back to the moon. Isaacman has promised the Senate, Trump and the world that he will not allow that to happen. It is a heavy promise.

The search for past or present life should be the top science objective of future human missions to Mars, a new National Academies report concludes.

To develop more robust next-generation aerial explorers, NASA's Mars Exploration program is turning to drones.

As humanity prepares to take its first steps on Mars, a comprehensive report released by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and steered by scientists at Penn State lays out a detailed science strategy to guide the initial human missions to the red planet.