China’s Tianwen-3 Mars sample return mission is entering flight hardware development, targeting a late 2028 launch to seek out biosignatures on the Red Planet. The mission has achieved breakthroughs ...

A bacterium already famous for shrugging off extreme radiation and desiccation has now passed another brutal test: surviving ...

A super-tough microbe may be able to survive being blasted from Mars into space—opening the door to interplanetary life transfer.

The way this document is written suggests that when NASA scores bidders for the Mars Telecommunications Network, the addition ...

SpaceX has delivered a new animated look at the launch of Starship to Mars. See the launch, Super Heavy booster re-entry and ...

China launched a rover to Mars on Thursday, a journey coinciding with a similar US mission as the powers take their rivalry into deep space. The two countries are taking advantage of a period when ...

Elon Musk revealed that his rocket-launch firm SpaceX is now focused on building a “self-growing city” of humans on the moon – backing away from his plans to launch a civilization on Mars. The world’s ...

NASA lost contact with its MAVEN Mars orbiter in early December and has been unable to reconnect with the vehicle. NASA plans to resume efforts to hail the spacecraft now that the solar conjunction ...

Discover how SpaceX's Starship V3, featuring powerful Raptor 3 engines, aims to revolutionise Mars missions. Scheduled for mid-March, Flight 12 marks a pivotal test for Elon Musk's vision of human ...