Mars has always felt like a distant neighbor, reachable only after a long, risky cruise through deep space. Now engineers inside NASA are sketching a very different future, one where a nuclear powered ...

Congress has handed NASA a rare reprieve, rejecting deep proposed cuts and approving a budget that keeps much of the agency’s ...

InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) is a NASA Discovery Program mission that will place a single geophysical lander on Mars to study its deep ...

NASA joins ESA's ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover mission to Mars, guaranteeing launch in 2028 to search for life on the Red ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

Ross Elder of Williamstown, who will command a simulated mission living on Mars for 378 days. The mission begins Oct. 19. (Photo Provided) PARKERSBURG — A Williamstown man will lead an Earth-based ...

Mars has received considerable attention in the past few decades, thanks to the many robotic missions exploring it to learn more about its past. NASA and China plan to send astronauts/taikonauts there ...

NASA has tested a kind of super-fridge that may hold the key to any future crewed mission to Mars. Without the new cryogenic cooler, a ship to Mars would reach the Red Planet with empty fuel tanks, ...

This book’s strength lies in its authorship: it is not written by a physicist enthralled by the engineering challenge of Mars ...