After nearly 20 years of operations, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is on a roll, performing a new maneuver to ...

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk wants to send a cargo ship to Mars by the end of next year. Here’s why that plan likely won’t pan out.

Elon Musk is on a bold mission to redefine humanity's future by taking us to Mars, and his interplanetary vehicle, the SpaceX ...

The European Space Agency has ambitious goals for space exploration in the near future. In a new report published during the ...

Chinese scientists have alleged that NASA's new moon rover "copies" design elements from their Zhurong Mars rover. "This is a copy of the Chinese design," a Beijing-based space scientist who has ...

SpaceX's massive Starship spacecraft exploded into a dramatic fireball during testing in Texas late on Wednesday.

Back in 2013 American space agency NASA launched something called the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft. The role of the Lockheed Martin-built piece of hardware is to study ...

Pulsar Fusion's Sunbird nuclear fusion engine could reduce travel time to Mars to months and Pluto to years, revolutionizing space travel.

Though InSight was the size of a grand piano and the twin Mars Cube One spacecraft the size of cereal boxes, the lander was, in some sense, the easier challenge. Since the 1970s, we’ve sent a ...

Mini-Mag Orion uses magnetic fields to compress and ignite small nuclear pellets, offering a more controlled and potentially more efficient alternative to the traditional pusher-plate design. This ...

Mars has received considerable attention in the past few decades, thanks to the many robotic missions exploring it to learn more about its past. NASA and China plan to send astronauts/taikonauts ...

Designing space suits for astronauts visiting Mars is a drastically different thing than designing suits for the Moon. We spoke to NASA to find out why.