SpaceX is no longer talking about the Moon as a brief stopover. The company is sketching out how a fleet of giant rockets, industrial-scale refueling in orbit, and modular habitats could turn the ...

One episode can be a gothic ghost story, the next a romantic tragedy, and the next a sharp political allegory disguised as ...

When Elon Musk announced that he was taking SpaceX public with an initial public offering that would give the rocket company a $1.5 trillion valuation, shock waves erupted across the commercial space ...

NASA has lost contact with its MAVEN spacecraft, which has been orbiting Mars for over a decade. The loss of signal occurred on Dec. 6 as the orbiter passed behind Mars from Earth's perspective. MAVEN ...

NASA has lost contact with a spacecraft that has orbited Mars for more than a decade. Maven, an acronym for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, abruptly stopped communicating with ground stations ...

A Mars crater may have once contained water that sloshed back and forth as a tide came and went. If that is true, it follows that Mars must have had a moon that was massive enough to exert a ...

NASA teams are working to restore contact with one of its most advanced interplanetary satellites. MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) is one of only three NASA missions currently in ...

Clocks on Mars tick faster by about 477 microseconds each Earth day, a new study suggests. This difference is significantly more than that for our moon, posing potential challenges for future crewed ...

STARBASE, Texas — During a presentation, SpaceX CEO and founder Elon Musk shared how he plans to use Starship to reach the planet Mars, and how in a few short years, there is a chance humans could ...

WASHINGTON — NASA has lost contact with a Mars orbiter that has circled the planet for more than a decade, collecting science data and serving as a key communications relay. In a statement late Dec. 9 ...

One of NASA’s workhorse spacecraft in orbit around Mars has fallen silent, leaving agency personnel scrambling to troubleshoot the issue. The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission ...

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