SpaceX's Red Dragon project, announced on April 27, 2016, officially puts the company on a path to Mars, possibly as early as 2018. See how SpaceX plans to send Dragon capsules to Mars in this ...

So NASA is keen to see how Dragon's ride through the Red Planet's skies goes. That helps explain why the space agency is providing technical support to the 2018 "Red Dragon" mission in a range of ...

A mission that uses SpaceX's Dragon capsule to help bring chunks of Mars rock back to Earth for analysis could launch as early as 2022, researchers say. This "Red Dragon" project — which remains ...

SpaceX’s bold plan to put a Dragon spacecraft on Mars in 2018 will rely on a type of landing technique known as propulsive landing — a way of using rocket engines to go down instead of up. As ...

"Red Dragon" would follow NASA's Mars 2020 mission, ... Gonzales is still actively pushing for the project, which he discussed last week during a NASA Future In-Space Operations working group.

But no longer. "Yeah, that was a tough decision," Musk acknowledged Wednesday with a sigh. It had to be a somewhat humbling one, too, after Musk bragged during the Dragon 2 reveal in 2014 that ...

WASHINGTON — NASA’s science and space technology mission directorates are considering ways to cooperate with SpaceX on its Red Dragon mission, including flying payloads on that Mars lander.

Earth has rarely looked as remarkable as it does in this stunning shot (above) captured by NASA astronaut Don Pettit from the ...

SpaceX, the spaceflight company run by Elon Musk, plans to send its Dragon spacecraft to Mars as soon as 2018, the company announced on Wednesday. The rocket will be known as—surprise!—a Red ...

It was the fourth private astronaut mission funded by Houston-based Axiom Space and the second commanded by veteran astronaut ...