NASA hit a snag last year when the Ingenuity Mars helicopter crashed on the Red Planet. The space agency concluded that the ...

NASA’s latest Mars mission is not taking the familiar highway. Instead of a direct cruise along the classic Hohmann transfer, ...

Elisha Sauers writes about space for Mashable, taking deep dives into NASA's moon and Mars missions, chatting up astronauts ...

This article originally appeared on The Conversation. Envision a time when hundreds of spacecraft are exploring the solar system and beyond. That’s the future that NASA’s ESCAPADE, or Escape and ...

Most people will follow the next trip around the Moon from a couch or a desk. A smaller group may actually feel the rumble ...

High-energy particles streaming through space can damage DNA and increase cancer risk, but antioxidants, tardigrades and hibernation could help astronauts make the journey safely.

(CNN) — New Glenn, the towering orbital rocket that Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin designed to compete with SpaceX’s dominant Falcon rockets, is back for its second launch ever — this time with a job to send ...

Unless you’ve been living off the grid, you probably know that NASA is supposed to have humans land on Mars by the 2030s. That may seem like a long way off, but NASA is actually about to start ...

Blue Origin’s towering New Glenn rocket stood ready at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, carrying a precious cargo destined for Mars. NASA’s twin ESCAPADE spacecraft, tucked safely inside ...

Among other things, the mission calls for a rover to be sent to Mars and drill up to two meters in search of underground ...

To say that a trip from Earth to Mars is merely a long one would be a massive understatement. On July 30, 2020, when the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) sent its Mars rover ...

While the feds idled, an interstellar object known as 3I/ATLAS was barnstorming the solar system, at a speed that reached 153 ...