A trip to Mars takes much longer than a trip to space. Most missions to Mars typically take between 6 and 9 months. For example, NASA's Perseverance rover took about 7 months to reach Mars.

O penAI's large language model (LLM) ChatGPT is surprisingly good at piloting spacecraft, according to a team that trained it ...

SpaceX could potentially have 1,000 to 2,000 Starships traveling between Earth and Mars during the transfer windows, due to 26 months between opportunities, but Musk said the details of how that ...

Shubhanshu Shukla’s experience in space on board Axiom-4 will help bridge the gap between extensive ground-based training and invaluable real-world experience.

China’s lunar ambitions have evolved from symbolic flag planting to a systematic push for permanent space infrastructure.

At the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), the 88-Inch Cyclotron is a powerful ...

NASA’s Mars Orbiter is rolling 120° to help see beneath the surface - and it’s revealing clearer signs of ice, rock, and ...

After nearly 20 years of operations, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is on a roll, performing a new maneuver to ...

One of the great unsolved problems in modern planetary science is written on the surface of Mars. Mars has canyons that were ...

By discovering carbonate rocks, NASA's Mars rovers may have unlocked the key to understanding the fate of the Red Planet's climate.

China’s Tianwen-3 Mars sample return mission could bring Red Planet rocks back to Earth as early as 2031—years ahead of competing U.S.-European efforts ...

Drilling two meters deep for sampling will be a world first,” said Hou Zengqian, China’s chief scientist on the Tianwen-3 ...