NASA has lost contact with one its three spacecraft orbiting Mars, the agency announced Tuesday. Meanwhile, a second Mars orbiter is perilously close to running out of fuel, and the third mission is ...

Robert Zubrin, Presiden of the Mars Society, has developed an updated Mars plan that builds on his original Mars Direct proposal. This new plan integrates modern spaceflight technologies, such as ...

Mars once looked far more like Earth, with a thicker atmosphere and liquid water pooling on its surface, yet today it is a frozen desert where even a thin wisp of air struggles to hold on. NASA’s ...

China’s historic attempt to bring samples from Mars to Earth could launch as soon as 2028, two years earlier than previously stated, according to a senior mission official. The country’s Tianwen-3 ...

NASA's ex-Administrator told Congress the U.S. is in danger of losing the new space race to the Moon due to SpaceX's cascading delays in perfecting its Starship lunar lander. (Photo by Loren ...

For nearly half a century, NASA has been talking an awfully good game about its much-heralded Mars Sample Return (MSR) project. As long ago as 1978, the space agency requested funding to develop a ...

By Joey Roulette, Ross Kerber and Echo Wang WASHINGTON, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Investors eyeing SpaceX's potential blockbuster IPO may need to brace themselves as CEO Elon Musk balances his risky quest to ...

The first dual-satellite mission to another planet, NASA's ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers), is scheduled for launch no earlier than Sunday, Nov. 9, from Cape Canaveral ...

The idea of a human mission to explore Mars has been studied repeatedly over the past 75 years. More than 1,000 piloted Mars mission studies were conducted inside and outside NASA between about 1950 ...