The sudden silence of a veteran Mars spacecraft has turned a routine comet flyby into one of the most intriguing space ...

Nasa has lost contact with a spacecraft that has been orbiting Mars for more than ten years. The spacecraft, named Maven, ...

Launched in 2013, Maven began studying the upper Martian atmosphere and its interaction with the solar wind once reaching the red planet the following year. Scientists ended up blaming the sun for ...

NASA isn’t trying to sprint to Mars — it’s trying to win by never falling off the track. The “Moon to Mars” blueprint lays out a slow, locked-in climb: build lunar infrastructure, live there longer ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover may soon set a record for the longest distance driven on another planet.

A view inside the sandbox portion of NASA’s Crew Health and Performance Analog, where research volunteers participate in simulated walks on the surface of Mars. NASA is not quite sending astronauts to ...

The White House scheme to reshape NASA by slashing its funding could jeopardize future human flights to Mars. Shown here is NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft - one of the three Mars orbiters set to ...

Blue Origin is preparing to launch its massive New Glenn rocket on just its second spaceflight in 2025 from Florida on a mission to Mars. The 322-foot-tall spacecraft will carry NASA’s ESCAPADE ...

Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog is the fancy term American agency NASA uses to describe a program meant to completely cut off a group of people from the outside world, in an attempt to ...

NASA's first dual-satellite mission to another planet, ESCAPADE, is slated to launch this weekend. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works ...

NASA’s next crew of “astronauts” won’t leave Houston, but they will live like they’re 140 million miles away — sealed inside a simulated Mars habitat for 378 days. NASA said last week that four ...