Mars 3 holds a strange place in space history: it was the first spacecraft to soft-land on Mars, yet its triumph lasted just seconds before silence. The lander managed to transmit a fragmentary image ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is quietly turning a concrete-walled test bay into the launchpad for a new era of commercial trips to the Moon. By shaking, stacking, and scrutinizing Firefly ...

The same historic facilities that some 50 years ago prepared NASA's twin Voyager probes for their ongoing interstellar odyssey are helping to ready a towering commercial spacecraft for a journey to ...

As the Orion, the world’s most advanced deep-space capsule, counts down to circumnavigating the Moon, that trek could be the forerunner to a cascade of Mars missions in the 2030s. Shown here is a ...