NASA just tested a blazing-hot plasma engine that could help carry humans to Mars.

Next-generation rockets are transforming space exploration with reusable systems, heavy payloads, and deep space mission ...

For years, nuclear propulsion sat in the same category as so many ambitious space ideas, impressive on paper, always a few ...

Ingenuity's little-helicopter-that-could proved that flight on another planet isn't just a one trick pony, but something that can be expanded upon. Enter NASA's next-generation Mars helicopter blades ...

The rotor blades that will carry NASA's next-generation helicopters to new Martian heights broke the sound barrier during ...

NASA has successfully tested a 120-kilowatt lithium-fed magnetoplasmadynamic thruster, its most powerful ion engine to date, at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The technology, about 25 times stronger ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pit crater on Arsia Mons. (NASA/JPL–Caltech/UArizona) A mysterious pit on the flank of an ancient volcano on Mars has generated ...

A former chief historian of NASA reflects on the history and future of Mars exploration Roger D. Launius The original 'Face on Mars' image taken by NASA's Viking 1 orbiter that resembled a human face ...

A team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have some exciting ideas about the future of digital mapping for space exploration. They completed a paper titled ...

Researchers believe dark rocks at the site of a future Mars rover landing mission may be left over from ancient volcanic eruptions, and may be protecting signs of life — if there ever was life on Mars ...