Just a few days ago, NASA announced a bold plan to send a brand-new vehicle to Mars in 2028. It will carry the planned Skyfall payload, full of Ingenuity-class fliers, which should greatly increase scientists' understanding of the Red Planet's composition—but it's the ship's power and propulsion system that are truly exciting.

If you were to stand on the surface of Mars in two years and look up to the night sky, you might see a bright streak flying across the heavens, followed a few minutes later by another. Rather than flecks of space stuff, they would be satellites on a ...

Mars Exploration Has A Speed Problem. This Bot May Have Solved It. In A Nutshell Researchers tested a four-legged robot called ANYmal in simulated Mars and lunar environments, having it autonomously survey and identify rock samples without real-time human guidance.

A Dutch company that aims to land humans on Mars in 2023 as the vanguard of a permanent Red Planet colony has received its first funding from sponsors, officials announced this week. Mars One plans to fund most of its ambitious activities via a global ...

Why it matters: Artemis II is a critical test mission to shake down spacecraft systems, enabling a permanent human presence on the Moon and preparing for future missions to Mars. Free-return trajectory – a path that loops around the Moon and returns to Earth without propulsion

On March 27, 1989, the Soviet Union's Phobos 2 mission to Mars' moons ended in failure. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] But the whole mission was definitely not a failure. Phobos 2