For NASA, sending a crewed mission to Mars has been the long-term goal for over two decades. China has joined the club in ...

Houston’s Intuitive Machines and Cedar Park’s Firefly Aerospace have each launched moon landers with NASA’s Commercial Lunar ...

This year's Lunar Planetary Science Conference (2025 LPSC) saw some truly astounding presentations and proposals. These covered a wide range of science and exploration missions that address the ...

The surface of Mars is extremely cold, irradiated, and desiccated. But at one time, the planet was much warmer and wetter, ...

NASA's Curiosity rover landed on Mars on Aug. 5, 2012, and has travelled more than 34 kilometres on the Martian surface. The discovery of carbonate suggests that the atmosphere contained enough carbon ...

Steve Altemus, president and CEO of Intuitive Machines, suggested that Commercial Lunar Payload Services 2.0. would start ...

Image data acquired by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA's Mars Express mission show the eastern edge of Acheron Fossae, a tectonic graben system. HRSC is a camera experiment ...

We look at the recent flight of Fram 2, the first spacecraft to fly a polar orbit ... When will SpaceX really send people to Mars? Join Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik from Space.com as they tackle ...

Mars has fascinated people throughout history, and today, it is one of the most explored places in the solar system, with many rovers and orbiters searching the planet for evidence of past or ...

SpaceX launched the Fram2 mission, the first human spaceflight over Earth's polar regions ... aims to advance research for future Mars travel and involves various scientific experiments, including ...

the large propulsion system for final braking, and the landing gear to ensure a stable landing of the rover during touchdown. Two ramps will be deployed on opposite sides of the lander to ensure ...