SpaceX plans to use its Starship megarocket, which is still in development, to get people to Mars. Starship launched for the ...

New Glenn, which has been in development for about a decade, can carry 50 tons (45 metric tons) of payload to low Earth orbit ...

There’s been speculation that Donald Trump may cancel the Space Launch System rocket, which Nasa intended to use to get from ...

NASA is a methodical institution that plans its missions years or even decades in advance, enjoys a famously loyal workforce ...

SpaceX has delivered a new animated look at the launch of Starship to Mars. See the launch, Super Heavy booster re-entry and 'chopsticks' capture, on-orbit fueling and journey to the surface of the ...

Russia is testing a new plasma rocket engine that would drastically reduce travel time from earth to mars using charged ...

ESA is already planning to send the much-delayed, life-hunting Rosalind Franklin rover to Mars in the launch window opening in 2028. But the agency is already setting its sights on a more ...

To conserve fuel, spacecraft don’t launch toward the current position of Mars. Instead, they wait until the planet is properly aligned and then cruise to where Mars will be — seven or more ...

Launch windows to Mars are periods of a few weeks that open every 26 months — due to the relative positions of the planets — during which a spacecraft can launch for Mars using the least ...

Musk has long envisioned colonists on Mars. This seems like a fever dream, but it recently featured in Trump’s inaugural ...

Mars spacecraft teamed up with an AI model to find a new impact crater on on the Martian surface, changing our understanding ...