With China's advancing deep space exploration capabilities and critical progress in space-based nuclear power technology, the nation is basically ready to conduct orbital and close-in missions to ice ...

South Korea also wants to be in the space race, and even plans for a presence beyond Earth’s orbit, with ambitions to create its own lunar base within 20 years. At a public meeting held at the ...

Makenzie Lystrup’s departure from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center comes soon after the resignation of the director of JPL.

Mars is actually very complex but actually very fascinating in the meantime, said Gina DiBraccio, MAVEN mission project ...

On Monday, NASA announced that Makenzie Lystrup will leave her post as director of the Goddard Space Flight Center on Friday, ...

More than 280 current and former employees across all NASA centers and directorates decry “rapid and wasteful changes.” ...

Interestingly, Tikhonravov’s dream of a Soviet mission to Mars was based on former Nazi rocket scientist-turned-American rocket scientist, Wernher Von Braun, who had his own “ Mars Project ” that ...

NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft beamed back images of what appear to be hearts on the surface of a neighborly planet.

This is the story of Delta III, a planned successor to the legacy Delta II that was launched just three times without success ...

A NASA Mars mission's long and winding road to the launch pad is nearing its end. The twin ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma ...

Northrop Grumman has successfully ground tested the motor that could be used for the historic first orbital rocket launch from another planet. The solid rocket booster is intended to help return the ...

Blue Origin's first launch of its New Glenn rocket was supposed to send up a pair of Mars-bound satellites for NASA, but ...