For the closest thing to spending a year on Mars, without leaving Earth, look no further than Houston. NASA has opened ...

NASA is officially calling for research participants for the agency’s next simulated deep space mission set to start in ...

The space agency has put out a call for its Moon & Mars Exploration Analog, which recreates the challenges of a long-duration ...

After six months of radio silence, NASA’s Maven spacecraft at Mars has been declared dead. The space agency confirmed ...

NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft was in excellent shape when it disappeared behind Mars on December 6 of last year. The routine passage, called an occultation, was supposed to last less than an hour, but ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has uncovered the strongest evidence yet that Mars may once have been capable of supporting life ...

NASA officials said Tuesday that they are seriously considering sending the full-scale engineering model of the Perseverance ...

Relativity Space — a rocket maker acquired by former Google executive chair Eric Schmidt last year after stumbling on the path to orbit — might just beat SpaceX to Mars.

NASA wants to send an ambitious fleet of helicopters to soar through Martian skies—but scientists fear the endeavor could ...

On June 14, 2026, NASA's Perseverance Mars rover completed a marathon, or 26.2 miles (42.2 kilometers) as a spacecraft ...

Bill Harwood has been covering the U.S. space program full-time since 1984, first as Cape Canaveral bureau chief for United Press International and now as a consultant for CBS News. On Wednesday, ...

Cleaning a space toilet while on work experience was Claire Parfitt's first introduction to a career away from Earth's orbit.