The Impact of Wheel Damage on the Mission The damage to Curiosity’s wheels is a reminder of the harsh environment that NASA’s ...

The poor wheel is "still holding up well despite taking some of the worst abuse from Mars," according to a NASA update by Jet Propulsion Laboratory missions operations engineer Ashley Stroupe ...

NASA's Artemis program, which aims to use SpaceX's Starship rocket to put humans on the moon as a proving ground for later ...

During the Mars 160 -- a set of twin missions to both Utah and Nunavut in 2016 and 2017 -- our team undertook a floristic survey of the lichen biodiversity present at each site. During simulated ...

Two space-focused companies have joined SpaceX in the race to get a mission to Mars. Impulse Space Inc. and Relativity Space have joined forces per a video and several tweets announcing the juncture.

We have to be very careful in the way we prepare missions, doing lots of cleaning of the technology, to make sure we're not taking life to Mars and measuring that. That's the last thing we want to ...

Students tested the rovers in a simulated Mars environment meant to emulate what the ESA's Rosalind Franklin ExoMars rover ...

Asteroids that regularly fly between Earth, Venus and Mars could provide radiation shielding for human missions to explore ...

Michael Khan is a Senior Mission Analyst for the European Space Agency (ESA). His work involves studying the orbital mechanics for journeys to planetary bodies including Mars. The time it takes to ...

Any notion of an independent Mars means the perchlorate problem must be solved, because humans have to eat. Resupply missions are, by definition, Earth dependent, and hydroponics are inadequate ...

The tightening relationship between Donald Trump and Space X CEO Elon Musk has caught the attention of space policy analysts ...

Few rockets, even in the testing stage, could support crewed missions to Mars. NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) is capable of reaching the outer solar system—it was initially slated to handle ...