After back-to-back Starship upper stage failures, SpaceX is ready to try again to launch the world's most powerful rocket.

The more significant surprise over the past decade has been the shift in Musk’s politics and his controversial rise to ...

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has captured several images of the Insight lander on the Red Planet between 2018 and 2024. See a time-lapse of the imagery here. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Unive ...

A Europa Lander prototype was just successfully field tested on Alaska's Matanuska Glacier to simulate the icy conditions of ...

Andy Weir's bestselling story "The Martian" predicts that by 2035 NASA will have landed humans on Mars three times, perfected return-to-Earth flight systems and collaborated with the China National ...

DNA analysis has revealed that 26 novel species of "extremophile" bacteria were lurking in a clean room that housed NASA's ...

BEIJING - China is seeking payload proposals for its Mars sample return mission and inviting overseas researchers to ...

In 1976, NASA’s Viking 1 lander touched down in Chryse Planitia. In the process, it became the first successful Mars lander. To Alexander Hayes, it also marked the beginning of the modern hunt ...

Those samples will be loaded into a rocket inside the lander called the Mars Ascent Vehicle, which will launch into Mars orbit, where it will rendezvous with a spacecraft called the Earth Return ...

The stationary lander spent nearly 1,500 days on Mars. Mission managers declared the program's end on Wednesday after the lander failed to respond to two messages from mission control at NASA's ...

An illustration of a Mars lander, within its entry capsule, separating from its cruise stage upon arrival at Mars. Impulse Space would build the lander and Relativity Space would launch it.

Once on Mars, InSight couldn’t go anywhere; it was a lander, not a rover, so the mission was rooted to the spot where it touched down. Every picture the robot beamed home showed the same dusty ...