Goodbye, BFR … hello, Starship: Elon Musk gives a classic name to his Mars spaceship First it was the Mars Colonial Transporter, or MCT … then it was the Interplanetary Transport System, or ITS …… Read More
NASA picks ancient Martian river delta at Jezero Crater as landing site for 2020 rover One week before the next Mars mission is due to land, NASA has chosen the landing site for its next next… Read More
Elon Musk and Mars take the spotlight in National Geographic TV doubleheader Science fiction blends with fact in tonight’s double dose of Mars from National Geographic’s TV channel. Truth to tell, there’s… Read More
Moon Direct: Mars maverick lays out his low-cost plan to set up lunar bases For decades, rocket scientist Robert Zubrin has been a voice crying in the Martian wilderness. But now the president of… Read More
Who will get to Mars first? Oddsmakers favor SpaceX and Blue Origin over NASA If sending humans to Mars is a race, which team is favored to win? Bookies give the nod to Elon… Read More
Pale Red Dot: NASA’s MarCO probe snaps first picture of Mars taken by a CubeSat Mars looks like nothing more than a reddish speck in a picture captured by one of NASA’s twin MarCO spacecraft,… Read More
Review: ‘First Man’ and ‘The First’ focus on the moon, on Mars … and on families Two big-name dramatic productions — “First Man” in theaters, and “The First” on Hulu — are putting the glorious past… Read More
As Mars’ huge dust storm clears, NASA’s Opportunity rover is seen but not heard NASA’s Opportunity rover still hasn’t made contact after a weeks-long Martian dust storm forced it to go into hibernation, but… Read More
ANA Holdings partners with Japan’s space agency on ‘Avatar X’ telepresence program Telepresence robots on the moon and Mars? That’s the vision laid out for the partnership between ANA Holdings, the parent… Read More
Commercial branding on spacecraft? Five key points in NASA’s evolving space vision Why can’t commercials be filmed on the International Space Station? How about astronaut endorsements of energy drinks or tennis shoes?… Read More
Moonrise, moonset and Mars: Photos hit the high points at Mount Rainier MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK, Wash. — Warm weather, clear skies and a full moon brought me out in search of… Read More
It’s prime time for watching Mars – plus a total lunar eclipse that you can see online It’s no hoax: Mars is bigger and brighter in the night sky than it’s been at any time since 2003.… Read More
Mars Express delivers radar evidence of hidden lake at Red Planet’s south pole Radar readings from the European Space Agency’s Mars Express orbiter point to the location of what appears to be a… Read More
Good news! NASA says Opportunity rover should be able to wait out Martian storm NASA has had to put its power-starved Opportunity rover into an induced coma on Mars, but that drastic maneuver — plus… Read More
NASA loses contact with its dust-choked Opportunity rover on Mars, but stay tuned News Brief: NASA’s Opportunity rover on Mars has lost touch with its handlers back on Earth, probably due to a… Read More
NASA’s Curiosity rover tracks down organic molecules and methane on Mars The latest evidence for methane and other organic chemicals on Mars isn’t the smoking gun for life on Mars that… Read More
What Americans want from space: More about Earth, less about moon and Mars A newly released survey from Pew Research Center suggests that Americans still strongly support the space program, 60 years after… Read More
Five ‘Martian’ miscues to fix in space flicks LOS ANGELES — Planetary scientist Pascal Lee could give astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson a good run for his money when… Read More
Smallest interplanetary probe snaps a picture of our Pale Blue Dot (and the moon) You don’t have to fly beyond the orbit of Neptune to see our home planet as a Pale Blue Dot.… Read More
NASA adds a drone to its 2020 Mars rover NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has given the thumbs-up to putting a helicopter on Mars. The Mars Helicopter, which is actually… Read More
Fog and flames: Up-close photos from the Mars InSight mission’s launch pad VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — As thick fog enveloped Space Launch Complex 3 early this morning, the Mars InSight lander… Read More
InSight lander lifts off from California, kicking off quest to get Mars’ inside story NASA’s Mars InSight lander and two piggyback probes were lofted through California’s coastal fog into space before dawn today, beginning… Read More
He shoots, he scores: Basketball star Chris Bosh geeks out over Mars InSight mission While retired NBA All-Star basketball player Chris Bosh plans his next career moves, he and his wife Adrienne are taking… Read More
It’s showtime for launch of NASA’s Mars lnSight lander (and its piggyback probes) NASA’s Mars InSight lander is being prepped for a launch that will send some magical science and engineering toward the… Read More
NASA’s Kilopower project demonstrates a nuclear reactor that’s made for space That’s one small step for nuclear reactors on the moon and Mars, and several giant leaps to go. Eventually, the… Read More
Europe’s Trace Gas Orbiter sends its first color picture of Mars – and it’s spectacular The first color image to come from a camera aboard the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter in its Mars-mapping orbit shows… Read More
There’s only so much time left to look for life on Mars before life arrives from Earth STANFORD, Calif. — NASA has been looking for life on Mars for more than 40 years, but the quest could get… Read More
Breakthrough Discuss turns spotlight on search for life elsewhere in solar system STANFORD, Calif. — Are there microbes falling in the snows of Enceladus? Could a drone fly to biological hot spots… Read More
Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg says that humans could get to Mars within a decade* Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg says it’s possible that humans will set foot on Mars in the next decade, and he’s… Read More
Elon Musk Q&A: First Mars spaceship is being built, with flight tests set for 2019 SpaceX is building its first Mars transport vehicle, also known as the BFR, and “making good progress” toward short-hop test… Read More
