The Hera mission is headed for the Didymos binary asteroid system. NASA's Double Asteroid Redirect Mission (DART) smashed ...

On September 29, 2013, SpaceX performed the first supersonic retropropulsion (SRP) maneuver to decelerate the reentry of the ...

Following the 1990s discovery that Mars had once been a watery oasis in the solar system’s habitable zone, NASA devised a ...

There, experts matched gasses trapped within the rock to those detected in the Martian atmosphere by NASA’s Viking spacecraft ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) 's Hera asteroid probe, has successfully completed a critical milestone in its mission to ...

Bill Maher and Neil deGrasse Tyson found common ground on Friday as they both ruthlessly mocked Elon Musk's promises to send ...

Ollennu, designed NASA's InSight spacecraft. He gained significant attention following the successful landing of InSight in ...

When the Viking 1 lander send down twin landers to study Mars in 1976, the results returned a negative result for the ...

Back in 2007, I talked with Rob Manning, engineer extraordinaire at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and he told me something shocking. Even though he had successfully led the entry, descent, and ...

Firming up plans to go to Mars would be fine, so long as it is not done at the expense of returning to the moon.