When astronauts set foot on Mars, it will be one of humanity’s greatest milestones, marking the start of a new era of ...
Elon Musk has fixed a new date on the cosmic calendar, telling the world that his giant Starship rocket could reach Mars for ...
Peter Schiff, a prominent gold advocate and vocal critic of Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC), has raised concerns about former President Donald Trump‘s recent promise of a Mars landing. Schiff’s critique draws ...
NASA and Elon Musk are racing toward the same destination, but they are not running the same race. While SpaceX talks in terms of the next launch window, NASA is quietly building a layered campaign of ...
What are the most ideal landing sites on Mars for the first human missions that can provide maximum survivability while also exhibiting the potential for finding life beyond Earth? This is what a ...
Imagine trying to land an SUV-sized rover on another world. That's definitely enough of a challenge on its own, but picture doing so while the rover hangs perilously beneath a hovering sky crane, ...
The world’s most advanced deep-space capsule, the Orion, is set to speed astronauts around the Moon, a trek that could ...
Once on Mars, the half dozen rotorcraft would act in concert as they explore the region around the landing site using cameras and subsurface radar scanners. Aside from general information, the goal ...
It’s tricky to get a spacecraft to land exactly where you want. That’s why the area where the Mars rover Curiosity team had targeted to land was an ellipse that may seem large, measuring 12 miles by 4 ...
At 1:31 a.m. ET on August 6, 2012, NASA’s Curiosity rover made a spectacular landing on the surface of Mars. To mark the 12th anniversary, NASA has shared a video (below) in which members of the ...