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

Hera will perform a swingby of Mars in March 2025 as a way of gathering extra momentum on its way to the Didymos binary asteroid system. The spacecraft will fly within the orbits of both Martian ...

On November 13, 1971, Mariner 9 became the first spacecraft to orbit Mars. At the time, scientists didn't know much about the Red Planet. NASA had several flybys before Mariner 9. Those flybys ...

On November 7, 1996, NASA launched its Mars Global Surveyor mission. This was the first mission NASA sent to Mars in almost 20 years. The Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft was an orbiter. It transmitted ...

From lunar missions to Mars settlements, SpaceX is revolutionizing space travel. But has Musk truly outpaced the competition?

A new Texas A&M space institute will feature landscapes that mimic the moon and Mars to support future exploration.

Starfish Space has closed a new tranche of funding led by a major defense tech investor as it looks to launch three full-size satellite servicing and inspection spacecraft in 2026. The ...

a spacecraft of the European Space Agency orbiting Mars, in May last year. The message is a part of the "A Sign in Space" project aimed at engaging citizen scientists in decoding such signals.

After the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, a European Space Agency spacecraft orbiting Mars, beamed a signal containing an alien-like message in May 2023, three observatories on Earth picked it up and ...

Although this system works right now, it isn't robust enough to support the myriad Mars missions various space entities are dreaming up—especially if humans ever find a way to live among all of ...

For its proposal, Lockheed Martin suggests using MAVEN (short for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN). The NASA spacecraft, built by Lockheed Martin, launched in 2013 to study Mars ...