While the car-sized spacecraft flew around the Mars system, flight controllers on Earth temporarily lost communication with ...

Several of NASA's top private contracts have been plagued by cost overruns and delays that have forced taxpayers to cough up ...

The intriguing chemistry of a rock collected by the Perseverance rover could trace to microbial activity — or not.

Robert Zubrin, the planet’s leading strategist for landing humans on Mars, predicts SpaceX’s Starship will win the race to speed astronauts to Mars, but not until 2031.

NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter commanded our attention when it captured 'otherworldly' photos of a curious wreckage on the ...

Experts weigh in on whether President Donald Trump’s lofty goal of sending humans to Mars and back is feasible during his second term.

Firefly’s Blue Ghost lander touched down on the moon on Monday morning with the help of software and Blue Ghost was the second private spacecraf ...

A team of Chinese and foreign scientists has discovered underground sedimentary layers on Mars that appear to have been ...

"We found evidence for wind, waves, no shortage of sand—a proper, vacation-style beach," said geologist Benjamin Cardenas.

With Blue Ghost, Firefly Aerospace became the first commercial company to complete a fully successful moon landing, the ...

A robotic lunar lander built by Texas-based Firefly has successfully landed on the moon, becoming only the second ...

Mars may have once hosted an ocean with waves ... radar detected the ancient shorelines when it operated from May 2021 to May 2022. The rover landed in Utopia Planitia, a plain within the largest ...