What if humanity’s next giant leap isn’t just a dream, but a countdown already in motion? Using current space agency plans, ...

You're in the lab analyzing Martian regolith samples within your cozy Mars habitat serving on the fifth human mission to Mars. The power within the habitat has been flowing flawlessly thanks to the ...

Lest you think that billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has put his dreams of sending humans to Mars on hold, think again. In February, Musk announced that SpaceX would shift its focus from colonizing ...

A study from UT Southwestern Medical Center shows that daily exercise during long-duration spaceflight can help preserve ...

It may not be the 1.21 gigawatts Dr. Emmett Brown needed in the 80s classic "Back to the Future," but it's still a giant leap forward in space thruster power capabilities. NASA is testing a new ...

The US space agency has released a “pre-solicitation” for what is expected to be a hotly contested contract to develop a spacecraft to orbit Mars and relay communications from the red planet back to ...

Recent technological leaps at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in electric thrusters have boosted experts' confidence in sending crew members to Mars more efficiently. By using electromagnetic ...

NASA has awarded Blue Origin a $700 million contract to build a Mars orbiter. The spacecraft will provide navigation and ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Crew Dragon spacecraft for NASA’s Crew-10 mission launches from Kennedy Space Center. Aubrey Gemignani/NASA/Getty Image Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, ...