The U.S. space agency will aim to send a nuclear-powered spacecraft to Mars—a first—in a bid to show that nuclear propulsion can be used to send missions into deep space

Jeff Bezos’ aerospace company faces a pivotal moment Sunday as its towering New Glenn rocket prepares to launch twin NASA spacecraft toward Mars in only the second flight for the massive vehicle. The mission carries significance beyond simply delivering ...

If you were to stand on the surface of Mars in two years and look up to the night sky, you might see a bright streak flying across the heavens, followed a few minutes later by another. Rather than flecks of space stuff, they would be satellites on a ...

A Dutch company that aims to land humans on Mars in 2023 as the vanguard of a permanent Red Planet colony has received its first funding from sponsors, officials announced this week. Mars One plans to fund most of its ambitious activities via a global ...

The agency’s leader said new plans and timelines for the coming decade aim to create a permanent foothold by humans on another world and inspire Americans.

Former 12th NASA Administrator Charles F. Bolden Jr. joins FOX Weather following the successful and historic launch of Artemis II. And the mission is much more than a trip to the Moon, as Bolden

HOUSTON—Intuitive Machines (IM) is working to repurpose the solar electric power and propulsion element (PPE) spacecraft bus of NASA’s paused lunar-orbiting Gateway space station for the agency’s Mars mission.

The engine burn is a pivotal move that will put the astronauts on a path that humans haven’t traveled in half a century — one with plenty of risks.