Harmful cuts” jeopardize the agency’s mission, more than 280 current and former personnel contend in a scathing dissent.

With the FAA’s recent approval of SpaceX’s new splashdown area, the company will be allowed to litter larger regions of the ...

Interestingly, Tikhonravov’s dream of a Soviet mission to Mars was based on former Nazi rocket scientist-turned-American rocket scientist, Wernher Von Braun, who had his own “ Mars Project ” that ...

Evidence that rocky planets beyond Jupiter formed as rapidly, and at the same time, as the inner planets could transform our understanding of how planets take shape — not only in our solar system, but ...

Martian meteorite that is the largest known piece of Mars found on Earth has sold for $5.3 million at Sotheby's, setting a ...

Impact craters are formed when an object from space such as a meteoroid, asteroid or comet strikes Earth at a very high ...

The most complex parachute system to ever deploy on Mars has successfully slowed down an ExoMars mock-up landing platform for a safe touchdown on Earth.

South Korea is joining the new space race with plans for a moon base and Mars landing – both by 2045. As of mid-2025, no country has a permanent moon base. Well, not yet, anyway. However, below the ...

The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth was sold for just over $5 million at an auction of rare geological and archaeological objects in New York, while a juvenile dinosaur skeleton went for ...

When we picture Mars today, we see a cold, lifeless desert, battered by dust storms and cosmic radiation. But billions of years ago, the Red Planet told a very different story. Mars was once a warm, ...

A new study identifies Amazonis Planitia, particularly the AP-8 region, as a promising landing site on Mars. This location ...

The capsule entered a free fall, accelerating to near-supersonic speeds before triggering a two-stage parachute deployment identical to what will be used on Mars.