For decades, sending humans on the 140 million-mile journey from Earth to Mars has seemed like a distant pipedream. But as SpaceX successfully lands its Starship rocket booster, Elon Musk says ...

A book called "Mars Project" originated as a technical appendix to a science fiction novel, both of which were written by rocket science pioneer Wernher von Braun. The technical appendix was ...

In what appears to be a jab at NASA, Rocket Lab this week unveiled its own plan to return rock and dust samples the space agency has been collecting from Mars’ Jezero Crater since 2021.

An curved arrow pointing right. SpaceX just launched a Tesla Roadster to Mars on this: SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket. This was the Falcon Heavy's maiden flight. It's the launch that everyone's been ...

Trump who founded SpaceX in the hope that it would one day be able to send colonists to Mars, beamed with enthusiasm and offered two thumbs up. The gargantuan Starship rocket that Mr. Musk’s ...

SpaceX's Starship rocket is designed for such Mars missions (in addition to Moon landings), according to Musk. But the vehicle's seventh and most recent flight test Thursday suffered an in-flight ...

Why it matters: The journey all the way to Mars and back exacts a huge toll in ... something that massive into the narrow confines of a rocket. Even fully compacted, the radiator would be too ...