The crescent moon shines close to Mars above the western horizon at sunset on Sept. 24, but you'll need to be quick to spot the red planet before it slips swiftly from view alongside the twinkling ...

NASA has chosen 10 new astronaut candidates who will train for missions to the Moon and Mars. Their selection represents a powerful blend of talent and ambition, fueling humanity’s next great leaps ...

Yuri Kubo, 40, was selected from roughly 8,000 other candidates. "I made it through the first round, miraculously made it through the second round, and here we are today," Kubo said. Kubo and the nine ...

Elon Musk’s Tesla Bot isn’t just built for Earth - it could play a crucial role in SpaceX’s mission to colonize Mars. Designed to handle repetitive and dangerous tasks, this humanoid robot could ...

The 10 astronaut candidates, six of them women, will begin two years of training before becoming eligible for missions to low-Earth orbit and perhaps one day to the moon and Mars. By Kenneth Chang ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover recently captured a sweeping panorama of Mars’ Gale Crater under exceptionally favorable viewing conditions, offering one of the clearest looks yet at the vast Martian basin.

The Space Race ended with Apollo, but humanity’s journey was only beginning. From space stations to Mars missions, the dream of the stars still guides us forward. Supreme Court issues major ...

NASA has just shared one of its most impressive Mars panoramas to date. Captured by its trusty Curiosity rover, the panorama (below) of the Martian landscape comprises 44 images taken by the rover’s ...

A long-tailed comet has been spotted close to the sun, and some astronomers are predicting it could be seen with the naked eye in mid-October — just as another comet is forecast to do the same. It ...

Several people at the Defense Department have been temporarily suspended from their jobs and dozens of online posts were under review, service officials said Wednesday, as the U.S. military scrambled ...

As the Perseverance rover traversed an ancient river valley in Mars' Jezero Crater back in July 2024, it drilled into the surface and extracted a sample from a unique, striped rock called Cheyava ...