One week after landing in the Indian Ocean, Starship is still afloat, and SpaceX plans to recover it. Elon Musk shared a five-word update about the tower arms that could affect the next flight and ...

Georgia Tech students launched a simulated Mars mission based in an Arkansas missile silo. Six crew members live isolated for ten days eating freeze-dried food. Mission control in Atlanta operates ...

CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION — In the end, poor weather forced Blue Origin on Sunday to scrub its second launch of its New Glenn rocket. It was supposed to send up NASA’s ESCAPADE mission, which ...

A new era of spaceflight headlined by Artemis II in April is making rocket launches in the US a matter of routine. Here's ...

NASA develops a flexible, fabric-based antenna for its next Mars SkyFall helicopters that will test for frozen water in the ...

Perseverance caught Earth slipping behind Phobos on Mars, the first time anyone has recorded the sight from another planet's ...

Earth’s neighbor still has secrets that science is trying to figure out, and one of them is potential signs of life.

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

Earth disappearing behind the tiny moon Phobos. Seen from nearly 195 million miles away, our planet was reduced to a single point of light before briefly vanishing behind Phobos. The rare alignment ...

Mars is not an American frontier. It is a universal heritage site. The first human footprint on Martian soil must represent a species, not a flag. If we launch a crew without a global mandate, we risk ...

New thrusters could cut travel time to the Red Planet to three months and make the round-trip mission about two years total.

Current rockets are estimated to achieve a travel time of around nine months each way to Mars and back. However, an expected long stay on Mars of around 18 months would make the mission up to three ...