A new study suggests early asteroid trajectory data could help design faster Mars missions, potentially cutting round-trip ...

An almost unkillable fungal strain isolated from NASA’s ultrasterile clean rooms hints at “critical gaps” in interplanetary ...

It’s tough being a robot trekking along the dry, arid terrain of another planet with no humans around. NASA’s Curiosity rover ...

Providing good luck to the first Martian to find it.

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover took this selfie at a location nicknamed “Mary Anning” after a 19th century English ...

A crewed expedition to Mars promises to push the absolute limits of human endurance. To grasp the sheer scale of the journey, ...

Curiosity has detected a surprising variety of organic molecules on Mars, including compounds tied to the chemistry of life.

A prototype ion engine that uses lithium vapor as a propellant has aced its first tests, achieving 25 times more power than ...

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

Astronomers probed whether an asteroid’s path could be used to find hidden shortcuts in space. They particularly looked at ...

According to a new study, there might be a way to cut the journey to Mars down significantly by considering the trajectories ...