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The upcoming spring exhibition at San Francisco’s Exploratorium, opening Saturday, invites museum patrons to immerse ...

Engineers developed an engine prototype which could reach unprecedented speeds, cutting down interplanetary travel time.

In the coming years, an unprecedented number of people will leave planet Earth—but it’s becoming increasingly clear that deep ...

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With funding from NASA, a Texas A&M University graduate student is working to better understand the environment of Mars ...

A supposed square structure spotted on Mars sparked speculation about alien archeological sites on the red planet. It's a fun ...

NASA still views the moon as a stepping stone to Mars, even though Elon Musk has dismissed Earth's nearest neighbor as "a ...

Just above the moon will be Mars, shining with a steady orange glow. Both the moon and Mars will be in the Gemini ...

NASA's ambitious Mars sample-return mission faces budget and timeline challenges, but private space company Rocket Lab may ...

To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to ...

Jumping workouts could help astronauts prevent the type of cartilage damage they are likely to endure during lengthy missions to Mars and the Moon, a new study suggests. The researchers found that ...