China’s Tianwen-3 Mars sample return mission could bring Red Planet rocks back to Earth as early as 2031—years ahead of competing U.S.-European efforts ...

President Donald Trump's big tax breaks and spending cuts bill include cuts to the National Aeronautics and Space ...

One of the great unsolved problems in modern planetary science is written on the surface of Mars. Mars has canyons that were ...

China aims to launch the Tianwen-3 Mars mission by 2028, with sample return targeted for 2031, according to chief scientist ...

The origin of life is one of the most fundamental and enduring questions of mankind and one of the three greatest Origin ...

By discovering carbonate rocks, NASA's Mars rovers may have unlocked the key to understanding the fate of the Red Planet's climate.

One summer night in 1877, American astronomer Asaph Hall was looking through his telescope in Washington, D.C. Mars was at ...

Blue Origin has been mum about the payload that will fly on this rocket, but multiple people have told Ars that the current ...

In 2025, space exploration enters a new era with missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond, led by NASA, ISRO, ESA, JAXA, and ...

Three NASA space missions supported by teams at the University of Colorado Boulder, including the more than decade-old MAVEN mission to Mars, may be canceled in October as part of funding cuts ...

Starship is being developed as a fully reusable transportation system. This means the rocket and spacecraft will be able to ...

SpaceX's massive Starship spacecraft exploded into a dramatic fireball during testing in Texas late on Wednesday.