Robert Zubrin, the planet’s leading strategist for landing humans on Mars, predicts SpaceX’s Starship will win the race to ...

While the car-sized spacecraft flew around the Mars system, flight controllers on Earth temporarily lost communication with ...

Getting from Earth to space isn’t just about speed—it’s about planning the right trajectory. The Moon, our closest neighbor, ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) fires up three of the instruments on the Hera spacecraft and takes images of the smaller ...

Out past Neptune are countless small icy and rocky bodies called Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), and many of these have moons ...

The Sunbird concept is for the fusion-powered ‘tugs’ to be permanently based in space, able to dock with spacecraft and ...

NASA's Artemis campaign is rapidly advancing the development of Gateway, a space station that will orbit the Moon and serve ...

The Sunbird nuclear fusion rocket concept has the potential to more than halve the time to travel to Mars and cut travel time ...

On March 1, NASA's Europa Clipper will streak just 550 miles (884 kilometers) above the surface of Mars for what's known as a gravity assist—a maneuver to bend the spacecraft's trajectory and ...

Its stop and turnaround in its orbit is because Earth is passing Mars at a faster rate of speed. On average, Mars goes into retrograde every 26 months, according to BBC Science Focus. Mars moves ...

If we achieve advanced nuclear, antimatter propulsion or other advance propulsion it would be possible to achieve near ...

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...