The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target.

Robert Zubrin, likely the planet’s leading strategist for landing humans on Mars, and then remaking it in the Earth’s image, predicts SpaceX’s colossal Starship will be the first spacecraft ...

The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices ... but that is the extent of it. Right now, Mars is a reddish desert landscape – attractive but dead, and certainly not ...

On Wednesday 12 March 2025 ESAs Hera spacecraft for planetary defence performs a flyby of Mars. The gravity of the red planet shifts the spacecrafts trajectory towards its final destination of the ...

NASA’s former Galileo spacecraft still holds the Europa flyby record, passing within 351 kilometers in 2000.

Then—four out of six engines quit like overworked interns. The spacecraft started spinning like a confused fidget spinner, and then, in classic SpaceX fashion, it exploded. A "rapid unscheduled ...

That lunar flyby mission carrying four astronauts is set for launch in April 2026. It's a flight test mission that will pave the way for landing the first woman and the next man on the moon.

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 ...

For the second time this week, a privately owned spacecraft has landed on the Moon ... Odin is also silent, making its planned asteroid flyby unlikely.

March 7 (UPI) --NASA on Friday rolled out the new Artemis II Orion spacecraft and twin Space Launch System solid rocket boosters that will carry astronauts in the first crewed Artemis mission around ...