AUSTIN (KXAN) — For more than a decade, the Curiosity rover has explored the surface of Mars. In just a few days, it will go dark as NASA loses contact with the Martian explorer. From Dec. 27 to Jan.

As the Orion, the world’s most advanced deep-space capsule, counts down to circumnavigating the Moon, that trek could be the forerunner to a cascade of Mars missions in the 2030s. Shown here is a ...

Think self-driving cars are impressive? Try a self-driving rover on a planet over a hundred million miles away. On Wednesday, NASA announced that its Mars Perseverance rover had pulled off a stunning ...

The Mars Perseverance rover has been investigating the Jezero Crater and came across something that is not native to Mars at all. It is a meteorite that collided with the red planet. Though various ...

CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION — In the end, poor weather forced Blue Origin on Sunday to scrub its second launch of its New Glenn rocket. It was supposed to send up NASA’s ESCAPADE mission, which ...

Last week, NASA revealed that it had lost the signal from its MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) spacecraft, one of just seven Earthly probes currently orbiting Mars. The agency failed to ...

CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION — NASA and Blue Origin are planning to launch the ESCAPADE mission, where a pair of satellites will study Mars' magnetosphere. ESCAPADE will eventually help future ...

Outside Earth's protection, space travellers will be routinely exposed. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. This article was ...

When Elon Musk announced that he was taking SpaceX public with an initial public offering that would give the rocket company a $1.5 trillion valuation, shock waves erupted across the commercial space ...

"There is a lot to keep us busy." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA's Perseverance Mars rover may soon set a record for the ...

US President Donald Trump on Thursday confirmed that he wants to send astronauts back to the moon as soon as possible, putting eventual Mars missions on the back burner. In an executive order on his ...

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft has just taken its milestone 100,000th photo of the Red Planet using its high-definition camera. It reveals a dark region of moving sand dunes. When you ...