China’s Mars mission leaves US for space dust with Nasa at least 4 years behind Samples collected by Perseverance rover not expected until at least 2035, four years behind Tianwen-3’s ‘grab ...

The update follows several recent disappointments for the world's first private space firm and Musk's long-term vision of colonizing Mars. What is Starship and what will it do? Starship — the ...

After Scott Kelly spent a year on the International Space Station, the astronaut returned to Earth in 2016 shorter, more nearsighted, lighter and with new symptoms of heart disease that his ...

European space probe Hera flew past Mars on Wednesday on its way to Dimorphos on its planetary defence mission. During the flyby, the probe captured unique images of the Red Planet, as well as one ...

NASA’s Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission promises to fill significant gaps in our understanding of the universe and propel humanity forward in a new phase of the space race. Exploring the cosmos ...

“We are going to conquer the vast frontiers of science, and we are going to lead humanity into space and plant the American flag on the planet Mars and even far beyond,” Trump said in the ...

The signal was part of the Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE) experiment, a co-mission between NASA and the Italian Space Agency. Being able to make use of GPS signals will allow future ...

And Elon Musk has talked about sending the first uncrewed Starships to Mars in 2027 and astronauts soon after. But there is a risk. The Space Shuttle was one of the most complex machines ever built.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Several people in the Bahamas witnessed the explosive wreckage of the failed Starship rocket as it flew ...

Scientists have identified another possible commonality between Earth and Mars: a solid inner core. Scientists have identified another possible commonality between Earth and Mars: a solid inner core.

to the Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson. It flew 1,500 miles from Vancouver Island, Canada to Lake Pleasant. The plane, the Philippine Mars, was the last flying boat from World War II.

A Pilatus PC-12 aircraft equipped with a portable laser terminal transmitted 4K video to the International Space Station and back. "Laser communications use infrared light to transmit 10 to 100 ...