Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk aren't in competition for who has the biggest rocket (it's Musk), but their space startups are ...

ESA's ExoMars rover will likely see its way to the red planet’s surface before NASA and ESA return NASA’s Perseverance ...

The space race continues apace as China moves up the date for its historic Mars sample return mission while the US slashes ...

China’s historic attempt to bring samples from Mars to Earth could launch as soon as 2028, two years earlier than previously ...

The U.S. space agency is looking to the private sector to cut costs and expand scientific missions to the Red Planet.

Aerojet Rocketdyne went a step farther, urging that if NASA were to reduce the mass of the Mars rocket, the team could potentially reuse the sky crane landing system that brought the Perseverance ...

Mars is home to strange spider-shaped geologic formations known as the araneiform terrain, which are found mostly in the ...

with the first people landing on Mars within seven years. It comes after it was announced in January that NASA's planned manned trip to the moon, Artemis II, would be delayed until September 2025.

These will be uncrewed to test the reliability of landing intact on Mars. If those landings go well, then the first crewed ...

China has accelerated its Tianwen-3 Mars mission to a 2028 launch, with plans to return Martian soil by 2031. This move comes ...

Astronauts in a demo flight headed by billionaire-pilot Jared Isaacman are testing leading-edge technologies pivotal to ...

Elon Musk said on X that he envisions Starships making uncrewed trips to Mars by 2026 before astronauts head to the Red ...