NASA's Curiosity rover has sent back a striking new "postcard" from high on the slopes of Mount Sharp, offering a dramatic ...

Several of NASA's space-based missions have observed Interstellar Comet 3I⧸ATLAS. As it approaches Mars, orbiters and rovers ...

NASA lost communication with its MAVEN probe nearly a month ago, and efforts to re-establish a connection have been futile.

"How do you get to Mars when the launch vehicle is not necessarily going to Mars?" ...

Four astronauts are about to become the first humans to venture near the moon in more than half a century since NASA's iconic ...

In July 2024, Perseverance cored Sapphire Canyon mudstone, detecting vivianite, greigite and sulfur - signals consistent with ...

Godspeed, Artemis 2! As early as February, 4 astronauts will board NASA's Orion capsule atop the SLS rocket in Florida for 10 ...

The White House allocated just $18.8 billion to the space agency — a 24% decrease from the previous year's funding — in its ...

Some places feel borrowed from elsewhere. Iceland is one of them. Walk across its lava fields, and the ground looks ...

Talk of Mars often jumps straight to rockets and boots on red soil, but much of the work happens quietly, long before any ...

Mars looks familiar from afar, but surviving there means creating a protective oasis in a hostile world. Instead of shipping ...

The race to Mars has quietly become the defining contest of twenty-first century spaceflight, pitting a state-backed Chinese ...