When Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla floated into the International Space Station (ISS) from the Crew Dragon capsule that had docked with it on June 26, he wasn't feeling too good. Despite being a ...

Lockheed Martin has unveiled a new proposal to take over NASA's beleaguered Mars Sample Return mission for less than half the ...

China has conducted two spacewalks from its Tiangong space station in as many months and is advancing on its lunar ...

The ashes were lost alongside a collection of cannabis plant matter and seeds donated by a citizen science project seeking to ...

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

But Mars 2020 is people-free, and the landing must unfurl without help from Mission Control, because there’s more than a 10-minute communications lag with Earth.

Robert Zubrin, the planet’s leading strategist for landing humans on Mars, predicts SpaceX’s Starship will win the race to speed astronauts to Mars, but not until 2031.

The now-defunct Mars helicopter Ingenuity flew over and snapped pictures in April 2022 of debris flung onto the Red Planet by the Perseverance rover's landing capsule. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech ...

NASA Pulls Satellites From Bezos’s Blue Origin as Musk Touts Mars Landing Timeline Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk aren’t in competition for who has the biggest rocket (it’s Musk), but their space ...

NASA's Perseverance rover landed on Mars on February 18, 2021, so it's the perfect time to rewatch some of the most amazing footage of the spacecraft landing.

How do you launch a rocket from Mars? NASA's jaw-dropping plan involves pitching it in the air and igniting it aloft.

Like a car’s crumple zone, the experimental SHIELD lander is designed to absorb a hard impact. NASA has successfully touched down on Mars nine times, relying on cutting-edge parachutes, massive ...