To land on the right foot on the Red Planet, European engineers have been dropping a skeleton of the four-legged ExoMars descent module at various speeds and heights on simulated Martian surfaces.

Every spacecraft NASA has sent beyond low-Earth orbit over the past two decades has relied on some version of the same brain: ...

South Korea aims to make a Mars landing by 2045, President Yoon Suk Yeol said Thursday, outlining plans to spend about $70 billion over the coming decades on space exploration. There's a reason Jezero ...

NASA could be sending a nuclear-powered spacecraft to explore the skies of Mars in two years. The revelation about the new mission and the incredibly fast turnaround time to make it happen was mostly ...

For decades, nuclear propulsion has been a fixture of aerospace engineering proposals and government studies, always promising, never quite leaving the laboratory. That changes in 2028. NASA announced ...

Mars' surface as captured by NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter in 2023. The agency's new Mars helicopters will be modeled on this device. NASA / JPL-Caltech NASA has big, potentially revolutionary ...