A routine pass behind Mars marked the end of an era for one of NASA's most important space missions. After more than a decade ...

Cleaning a space toilet while on work experience was Claire Parfitt's first introduction to a career away from Earth's orbit.

After six months of radio silence, NASA’s Maven spacecraft at Mars has been declared dead. The space agency confirmed ...

SpaceX tapped cryptocurrency billionaire Chun Wang to lead a private crewed mission around Mars and the moon. Here's everything to know (so far).

What is not controversial is that NASA needs a new spacecraft capable of relaying communications from Mars to Earth. NASA’s best communications relay today is the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which ...

On July 4, 1997, NASA's Mars Pathfinder mission arrived on Mars and began transmitting images from the surface of the Red ...

On July 3, 1998, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched the Nozomi spacecraft on a mission to Mars. This ...

On June 14, 2026, NASA's Perseverance Mars rover completed a marathon, or 26.2 miles (42.2 kilometers) as a spacecraft ...

NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft was in excellent shape when it disappeared behind Mars on December 6 of last year. The routine passage, called an occultation, was supposed to last less than an hour, but ...

Claire Parfitt's early work experience cleaning a space toilet at 14 sparked an unexpected journey, now leading her to head ...

NASA officials said the $582 million MAVEN orbiter could not be recovered after a problem on the far side of Mars late last year, and that its extraordinarily successful mission was at an end.

Relativity Space — a rocket maker acquired by former Google executive chair Eric Schmidt last year after stumbling on the path to orbit — might just beat SpaceX to Mars.