NASA's Artemis program aims to use the Moon as a stepping stone for human exploration of Mars. Artemis II, scheduled for 2026, will be the first crewed mission of the program, orbiting the Earth ...

Ingenuity proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that a helicopter can operate on another planet. Over 72 flights, the little ...

SpaceX, led by Elon Musk, is gearing up for one of its most daring missions yet: sending its Starship rocket to Mars as early ...

Applications are open for international science projects to join China’s Tianwen-3 mission to Mars, indicating that it is on track to launch in 2028 and increasingly likely to be first in the ...

However, Trump might not be on board to fund a crewed mission to Mars, a long-time goal of his campaign's biggest backer. Mars is Musk's white whale. He wants to die on the Red Planet and give his ...

Musk has said that the coming Mars mission would carry the Tesla humanoid robot "Optimus", which was shown to the public last year. Musk said the robot would one day be able to perform everyday ...

A space exploration mission to study an asteroid that NASA deliberately crashed a spacecraft into three years ago has taken stunning bonus images of Mars and its moon Deimos en route to its final ...

US President Donald Trump has downplayed the priority of a human mission to Mars, despite earlier support for Elon Musk's colonization vision. This shift in stance coincides with Trump asserting ...

The Mayor of Austin will be visiting Greater Manchester after a successful trade mission to Texas. The visit, scheduled for the summer of 2026, will see the mayor accompanied by a delegation of ...

Former NASA astronaut José Hernández said Monday that travel to Mars is “a good 15 years away.” “As I’ve always said … space ...