Article content continued An artist’s conception of Perserverance at work on Mars. NASA China’s Tianwen-1 mission is even more ambitious, comprising an orbiter, a lander and...
Elon Musk (Twitter) Elon Musk’s hopes for Starship to reach orbit before this spring didn’t quite pan out, but a recent test firing has the SpaceX...
An illustration of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon orbiting Earth. Kennedy Space Center/SpaceX via Flickr SpaceX’s Crew Dragon became the first crewed, commercially developed spaceship to dock at...
SpaceX just fired the engine of its latest Starship prototype, paving the way for a test flight in the near future. The company conducted a “static...
The new Mars rover boasts better instruments and a helicopter. ‘For the first time, we’re going to have HD video of a spacecraft landing on another...
How does a Mars rover stick its landing, you ask? Well, NASA is referring to the critical moment as the “7 minutes of terror.” Compared to...
Enlarge / Overhead view of SN5 static fire test on Thursday. Elon Musk/Twitter After scrubbing several attempts for weather concerns, technical issues, and even a range...
On Saturday, August 1, NASA and SpaceX plan to complete their historic Demo-2 mission, the first crewed test flight of the new Crew Dragon capsule which...
This story is part of Welcome to Mars, our series exploring the red planet. NASA has once again sent what amounts to the ultimate driverless car...
The biggest, most sophisticated Mars rover ever built — a car-size vehicle bristling with cameras, microphones, drills and lasers — blasted off for the red planet...
