NASA MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) mission scientists have uncovered a key puzzle piece in understanding ...

A peer-reviewed study modeling Mars transit times for chemical propulsion rockets found that even optimized Starship-class trajectories would still require roughly three months to reach the Red Planet ...

Mars may not have a strong global magnetic field like Earth, but scientists have discovered that it still creates glowing ...

In late August, we learned the next-generation Raptor engine was moved to its test site in McGregor, Texas, but at the time, little else was known about the particulars, such as when the testing would ...

Company president Gwynne Shotwell made the announcement during the Small Satellite Conference Tuesday in Logan, Utah, saying the company has shipped its next-generation Raptor engine to its test site ...

Nasa is developing ways to use nuclear power to send spacecraft to their destinations. Nuclear propulsion could greatly reduce the journey time to Mars, perhaps cutting a voyage of more than six ...

It’s no secret anymore that humanity is going to Mars in the relatively near future. Already, we’re seeing the first steps being taken toward the realization of that decades-long dream of our species, ...