Most people think a Mars mission takes a few months. In reality, a round trip mission takes between two and three years. Once ...

The U.S. space agency has fallen silent amid the federal government shutdown, but it's about to slingshot a pair of robotic spacecraft to Mars. The trajectory, which became necessary after two ...

Contrary to intuition, we cannot launch a spacecraft in a straight line. We must follow a Hohmann transfer orbit, which saves ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Blue Origin launched its huge New Glenn rocket Thursday with a pair of NASA spacecraft destined for Mars. It was only the second flight of the rocket that Jeff Bezos’ ...

Mars to Table builds on NASA’s first Deep Space Food Challenge by seeking to integrate multiple food production and ...