A one-way trip to Mars takes somewhere between seven and 10 months, following a fairly direct route between Earth and our neighboring planet. But what if we could cut that journey by more than half, ...

Blue Origin is proposing a version of its Blue Ring spacecraft to serve as a Mars communications satellite. Credit: Blue Origin WASHINGTON — NASA is reserving a small amount of space on a Mars ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has discovered more building blocks of life on Mars after carrying out a chemistry experiment never before conducted on another planet, scientists said Tuesday. The organic ...

NASA has confirmed the pending launch of the European Space Agency's (ESA) Rosalind Franklin rover, which is being sent to Mars. The current plan is to launch via a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from ...

Incoming views of Mars usually show its dusty, tan-colored surface littered with rocks, a familiar desert-like world that has looked more or less the same for millions of years. However, a new image ...

The final frontier went from a far-out concept well above our heads to one we can grasp in books, games, movies, and real life. While space has never felt closer, the magic that drew us there in the ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. In January 1944, Major General James Doolittle, the new commander of the U.S. Eighth Air ...

Scott Solomon is a biologist and professor at Rice University and the author of “Becoming Martian: How Living in Space Will Change Our Bodies and Minds.” When Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and ...

Bethany Ehlmann is a planetary scientist and director of the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA, and president of The Planetary Society. Curiosity draws ...

Mars may look like a frozen desert today, but new evidence suggests its watery past didn’t simply fade away quietly—it may have been blasted into space by powerful dust storms. Scientists have ...

NASA is sending a nuclear-powered spacecraft to Mars. Alongside Tuesday's announcement of its new Ignition program, which features a planned Moon base and a successor to the International Space ...

The mission, called Space Reactor 1 Freedom, will test advanced nuclear electric propulsion. Upon reaching Mars, the spacecraft would deploy helicopters to explore the planet from the air. This ...