Robert Zubrin, the planet’s leading strategist for landing humans on Mars, predicts SpaceX’s Starship will win the race to speed astronauts to Mars, but not until 2031.
Should it continue the Artemis program and establish a lunar base, or shift its focus directly to Mars? While using the Moon ...
NASA's Artemis campaign is rapidly advancing the development of Gateway, a space station that will orbit the Moon and serve ...
Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt is taking over as CEO of rocket startup Relativity Space, which has ambitions to reach Mars.
At those speeds, a rocket trip to Mars could take a month or two. The rocket engine prototype is currently being tested in a chamber that simulates the conditions of space. Although the rocket ...
The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target. During its brief rendezvous with the Red Planet, Hera caught a glimpse of the ...
So Sato and her team turned to the Ensemble Mars Atmosphere Reanalysis System (EMARS) dataset, produced by a range of space-based observations over many years, to analyze seasonal variations up there.
Two Mars gravity assists are expected ... A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will lift off from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base, carrying two NASA projects: The SPHEREx space telescope will ...
The orange-hued star Pollux (magnitude +1.15) and nearby white star Castor (magnitude +1.58) form the base ... Mars' will be slowly shifting its position against the background stars. Breaking ...
Its last launch on Jan. 16 failed right after liftoff when the upper stage of SpaceX's uncrewed Starship rocket exploded ...