Nov. 2, 2026 NASA’s Perseverance rover has set a historic record by traveling 28.10 miles across Mars, farther than any vehicle has ever driven on another world. Armed with groundbreaking autonomous ...

NASA is contributing to a Japan-led mission to study Mars' two moons, Phobos and Deimos. The Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission also aims to land on Phobos and collect a sample. Scientists hope ...

Ever wonder how the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's towering rockets get from parts to pad? It's a process. On the one hand, you've got the massive barge NASA uses to ferry core stages ...

A Japanese spacecraft is on its way to study Mars' 2 moons. But that's not all: It will also attempt to bring a piece of Phobos back to Earth.

Curiosity's 14 years on Mars and roughly 20 miles driven have left its wheels torn with holes and missing sections; engineers monitor damage, avoid hazardous terrain, and update software to preserve ...

The vision of Mars colonization is moving from science fiction into real-world planning, with multiple space agencies preparing for long-term human presence. Modern Mars missions focus on testing ...

NASA has formally added Relativity Space's Terran R to the agency's approved commercial launch roster — and the milestone would be routine, except that Terran R has also already been assigned a ...

WASHINGTON ― While no person has ever set foot on Mars, humankind has managed to conduct extensive explorations of the surface of Earth's planetary neighbor using robotic rovers. One of them, NASA's ...

Editor’s note, April 7, 2026, 5:10 pm ET: The Artemis II mission is conducting experiments that may radically advance our understanding of space medicine. The findings of A Virtual Astronaut Tissue ...