Reaching Mars is no simple feat. While the idea of sending humans to the Red Planet is gaining traction, the journey itself ...

Robert Zubrin, the planet’s leading strategist for landing humans on Mars, predicts SpaceX’s Starship will win the race to speed astronauts to Mars, but not until 2031.

The Red Planet and its tiny moon Deimos were recorded at a very near distance as the asteroid-chasing spacecraft completed a flyby on Wednesday.

NASA's Europa Clipper will streak just 550 miles (884 kilometers) above the surface of Mars for what's known as a gravity assist—a maneuver to bend the spacecraft's trajectory and position it for a ...

"It's like a game of billiards around the solar system, flying by a couple of planets at just the right angle and timing to ...

Mars, one of Earth’s nearest neighbors ... a way of — potentially — nudging huge rocks off path using the tiny attraction between the boulder-hugging spacecraft and the asteroid.

Since that night, Mars has been tracing a path westward against the star background. Want to see the stars of Gemini or Mars up close in the night sky? The Celestron NexStar 4SE is ideal for ...

We're yet to find any signs of life on Mars, anyway. Curiosity's path (in yellow) towards Gediz Vallis channel (top-center). (NASA/JPL-Caltech/UC Berkeley) Stuck here on Earth, we're fairly ...

Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune — will appear in a curved line across the sky, known as the ecliptic, which is the path the Sun traces.