enlarge / A Space Launch System rocket lifts off during the Artemis 1 mission. NASA is looking for ways to retrieve rock samples from Mars at a cost lower than …
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter is designed to fly five times in 30 days, ultimately covering more than 14 times the distance and totaling more than two hours of flight time. The …
Unlike its predecessor, Curiosity, NASA’s Perseverance rover is explicitly designed to search for potential evidence of past life, according to the space agency. Formal mission objectives. You don’t know the …
If all goes well, we may witness our species’ first manned mission to Mars in our lifetime. NASA is actively planning for this, and even though the actual spacecraft and …
Inflatable space habitats are a relatively new concept in space exploration. Although people started thinking about these things in the 1960s, when the original space race was at its peak, …
The Kiskiro Salt Flats in South America’s Altiplano region are filled with saltwater lakes and represent a landscape that scientists believe may exist in Gale Crater on Mars, which is …
This image was taken by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover’s Chemistry & Camera (ChemCam) on Sol 4158 (2024-04-17 07:52:27 UTC). Image source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL Curiosity continues to make progress along the edge …
Chris Carberry is the CEO of Explore Mars, Inc. and the author of “Music from Space” and “Alcohol in Space.” Joe Cassady is Director of Civil Space at L3Harris and …
One of Curiosity’s wheels hangs in the air in this Dec. 18 photo. NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover and legendary stuntman Ervel Knievel have something in common: They both pull …
Whether in real life or fiction, space travel is difficult. When Harry Vanderspeigle (whose real name is unpronounceable) visits our pale blue dot, a stray bolt of lightning knocks down …