Researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have developed a new thruster that increases power 25 times stronger than ...

Inside a long vacuum chamber in Southern California, a spacecraft engine glowed white-hot as it pushed toward a level of ...

The orbital period of an asteroid provides clues to the shortest path to the Red Planet.

Ever since humans gazed at the night sky, we’ve been drawn to that tiny reddish dot hovering above. Mars has captivated our imagination for generations, sparking countless questions about whether we ...

You're on the fourth human mission to Mars, and you're told the Odyssey spacecraft designed to take you there will be the ...

Elon Musk’s bombshell decision to freeze plans to begin building a human colony on Mars, in favor of fostering a Moon city, ...

Mars One, a nonprofit group that plans to send humans to Mars by 2024, recently announced it had reduced its pool to 705 applicants interested in being the first Martian settlers. In the Today’s ...

When astronauts travel to Mars, they will face a unique and potentially dangerous communications challenge. Communications between their spacecraft and Earth will have delays ranging from a few ...

NASA's Artemis program aims to return humans to the moon, which is seen as a stepping stone for future missions to Mars. The upcoming Artemis II mission will be a 10-day test flight circling the moon ...

NASA has tested a lithium-fed thruster that could become a workhorse for future Mars missions, and the key milestone is not ...

You're in the lab analyzing Martian regolith samples within your cozy Mars habitat serving on the fifth human mission to Mars ...