The president’s Inaugural Address linked landing on the Red Planet with Manifest Destiny, but left many of the specifics unclear.

During his inaugural address, President Donald Trump said he wants 'American astronauts' on Mars. Where does a future Mars mission currently stand?

The second Trump administration started with soaring rhetoric about sending humans to Mars but confusion about who was leading NASA on an acting basis.

In his prepared remarks, Trump, a longtime backer of U.S.-led space exploration and exploitation, singled out Mars and left the moon hanging.

President Trump has announced a bold Mars mission to plant the U.S. flag on the Red Planet, an ambition shared by Elon Musk's SpaceX.

Space stocks soared on Tuesday as bullish sentiment in the sector swelled after Donald Trump took office. Read more.

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. — Janet Petro has served as Director of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center since June of 2021. Now, the Trump Administration has named Petro the acting NASA Administrator. Dr. Ken Kremer with Space UpClose told us, “Usually they pick someone, the number three person who’s at the headquarters. So that would have been somebody else.”

Lost in the drama of President Donald Trump's flurry of executive orders and Inauguration Day announcements was this: He vowed to send astronauts to Mars. We are on board. Trump made similar promises in his first tenure in office and backed them up with additional NASA funding.

Pure-play space stocks flew higher on Tuesday, in a rally described as exuberance about the sector after President Donald Trump’s inauguration.

Rocket Lab USA shares trade higher Tuesday following President Donald Trump's inaugural address on Monday, where he vowed to prioritize space exploration and promised to send astronauts to Mars.

Nelson and NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy left the agency on Monday (Jan. 20), the day that Donald Trump began his second term as president. Trump has appointed Janet Petro, who most recently served as director of Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida, as NASA's interim chief.