NASA has launched the Mars to Table Challenge, seeking Earth-independent food systems capable of sustaining astronauts on ...

What everyone agrees on is that NASA needs a new spacecraft capable of relaying communications from Mars to Earth. This issue ...

The engineering lesson is simple: Sometimes the best observatory is the one already parked at another planet. When an ...

For decades, humanity has sent robotic explorers far beyond Earth’s comfort zone—into places where sunlight is weak, nights ...

MAVEN was built to last in orbit until 2030 — that's not looking likely anymore.

For decades, the search for alien intelligence has revolved around the question: if someone out there is listening, how could they hear us? A new study combining data from Penn State and NASA’s Jet ...

Early prototypes of the SpaceX Starship super-capsule that Italy is chartering to speed its spaceflight and biotech experiments to Mars (Marie D. De Jesús/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images) With its ...

Scientists haven't heard from the MAVEN orbiter since December 6. It had been studying the Martian atmosphere for over a decade ...

Ancient shoreline features hint that water on Mars once formed a vast ocean.

A Mars spacecraft has now been AWOL for more than a month. But NASA hasn't given up hope of restoring contact with the MAVEN ...