The Ingenuity helicopter from the Mars 2020 mission far exceeded its original mission of simply demonstrating controlled ...

Blue Origin has test fired its New Glenn rocket engine as it makes final preparations for the launch of NASA’s ESCAPADE ...

New study shows Mars went through shrinking ice ages, revealing how it lost water and where future missions might find what's left.

Mars is an inhospitable desert planet. Billions of years ago, things were different. In Jezero Crater, for example, fed by a ...

Spaceflight rewires the human body. Muscles shrink, bones thin and fluids shift towards the brain – but these changes may ...

Blue Origin's powerful New Glenn rocket has successfully completed a static fire test ahead of launching NASA's ESCAPADE ...

A pair of Mars-bound satellites are back to Kennedy Space Center a year after NASA bowed out of its chance to be the debut launch of Blue Origin’s New Glenn.

Hoping to push Mars exploration into top gear and do recon for a future crewed landing, AeroVironment has released its concept for a mission consisting of half a dozen autonomous helicopters that ...

The little Ingenuity drone proved that helicopters can play a revolutionary role in Mars exploration. Now, NASA is thinking ahead to bigger and better things. On the back of the success of Ingenuity, ...

If we're to land humans on Mars in the coming decades, we'll have to know what challenges await them when they get there. Enter M-MATISSE, a potential precursor to a crewed mission to the Red Planet ...

In this opinion column, Alexander William Salter explains why he believes exploring Mars is a strategic benefit for the ...