The Algodones Dunes, straddling the borders of California, Arizona, and Mexico, may seem like an unlikely location for Mars ...

The camera moves slowly over a surface that seems deserted and silent. There is no visible life, only dusty terrain ...

Will the next “giant leap for mankind” be made by the United States — or by our rivals? The answer may come as Congress ...

SpaceX has moved a new iteration of its Starship model to its Starbase in Texas for preflight testing. The new model, which ...

Robots can represent astronauts as avatars on Mars. A simulated experiment by NASA and DLR should show whether this can work.

In 2022, the Perseverance Rover rolled into a chapter of deep intrigue on Mars. Just as Schiaparelli once misinterpreted ...

NASA's successful cultivation of plants in space promises fresh food and psychological comfort, crucial for long-duration Mars missions and deep space exploration.

The “Skyfall maneuver” is the core innovation of the Skyfall mission. Instead of relying on a standard, costly, and complex ...

NASA and India plan to deploy a satellite that will map the Earth down to a centimeter after a launch on Wednesday from the ...

A slick trailer shows how NASA could five-up itself if the successor to Ingenuity is a whole batch of little sisters.

NASA was a mere passenger. Musk has crowded low Earth orbit with satellites (nearly 8,000) that are becoming indispensable to ...

Starting as a one-day meeting on the Johns Hopkins APL campus in 2020, the Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium has since ...