SpaceX’s Starship/Super Heavy vehicle lifts off Aug. 26 on its tenth test flight. Credit: SpaceX WASHINGTON — SpaceX completed a largely successful test flight of its Starship vehicle Aug. 26, putting ...

With ally SpaceX, the Italian Space Agency is set to chart and safeguard future astronaut flights to Mars while testing tech ...

Launch costs were high and minimizing mass sent to space was the main driver for mission design. To reduce mass, mission designs employed nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP), in-situ resource utilization ...

NASA’s 10 new astronaut candidates are already making history. The 2025 class includes the first person to join the astronaut ...

An Air Force test pilot, a Space Force officer, and a Marine Corps F/A-18 pilot were named to the crew of a NASA Mars ...

An uncrewed mission called Artemis 1 flew around the moon and back again in 2022. Four astronauts aim to do the same next ...

Ross Elder, Ellen Ellis, Matthew Montgomery and James Spicer — will spend a year inside a Mars habitat in the NASA Johnson Space Center starting Oct. 19.

(TNND) — Mars is cold, has a very strong radiation environment, no magnetic field, a very low-pressure atmosphere, and it's all carbon dioxide, so you can't breathe there. There are no nutrients to ...

One day, Mars might become a home to humans. But first, there’s the cinematic, sci-fi challenge of making the Red Planet suitable for life. There’s a problem, though: The typical person can’t get to ...

Starship performed very well on Tuesday (Aug. 27), but SpaceX will soon move on from the shiny silver vehicle. From the current version of it, anyway: The company plans to continue iterating with ...

This year, there’s been an uptick in people being accused of being horrible or insensitive for refusing to swap seats on flights—usually, it's because they refused to swap seats with a parent, or some ...

NASA has another mission, but this time, they are bringing in an Air Force pilot to tackle it. Here's everything you need to ...