NASA plans to launch a nuclear-powered spacecraft to Mars by 2028, a major step for deep space exploration and its planned moon base.

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Mars is a cold, dry, desert-like planet. But billions of years ago, scientific evidence suggests that it had a thick atmosphere, which kept it warm enough to support flowing water on its surface. So, ...

Ahead of a potential April 1 launch of the Artemis II mission from Florida, here's what to know about NASA's plans to one day send humans to Mars.

For nearly a month, NASA has been scrambling to make contact with a spacecraft in orbit around Mars that abruptly fell silent. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free ...

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 ...

(NEW YORK) — Mars is a cold, dry, desert-like planet. But billions of years ago, scientific evidence suggests that it had a thick atmosphere, which kept it warm enough to support flowing water on its ...

The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN mission, better known as MAVEN, has slipped into an unnerving silence just as it finished a rare close look at an interstellar visitor sweeping through the ...

Interplanetary space probes used to be the domain of giant governments, or conglomerates of smaller governments who couldn’t hope to field a space program on their own. Any attempt by one European ...

BEIJING (AP) — China has landed a spacecraft on Mars for the first time in the latest advance for its space program. The official Xinhua News Agency said Saturday that the lander had touched down, ...

MOSCOW - Russian space controllers were battling to redirect a probe that got stuck in a low orbit Wednesday, raising fears that it could crash back to Earth. The $167 million unmanned Phobos-Ground ...