Most people think a Mars mission takes a few months. In reality, a round trip mission takes between two and three years. Once ...

A recent poll conducted by CBS News provides an encouraging look into public support for the Artemis program to return astronauts to the moon and eventually send humans to Mars. Sixty-seven percent of ...

Before becoming the first aircraft to fly on another planet, the Mars Helicopter went through years of development and testing on Earth. Engineers had to design it to operate in Mars’ thin atmosphere, ...

A trip to Mars would be the adventure of a lifetime. Just ask the 78,000-plus people who signed up to move there, as part of Mars One’s hypothetical colonization project. But it would also be really, ...

What everyone agrees on is that NASA needs a new spacecraft capable of relaying communications from Mars to Earth. This issue ...

NASA says it’s now closer than ever to “discovering life on Mars” thanks to a key sample obtained by its Perseverance rover. On Wednesday (Sept. 10), the agency detailed its hopes for the sample, ...

This article originally appeared on The Conversation. Envision a time when hundreds of spacecraft are exploring the solar system and beyond. That’s the future that NASA’s ESCAPADE, or Escape and ...

Let's all recall that in the Moon landings, no science was performed by the Astronauts. Apollo was a magnificent geopolitical success, but the science was in the surface sample returns that were ...