SpaceX’s latest Starship test flight ended in failure as the spacecraft exploded mid-flight over the Indian Ocean. Launched from the Starbase facility in Texas, this was the ninth Starship mission and the first attempt to reuse a Super Heavy booster,

Elon Musk’s space company plans to test the huge experimental vehicle on Tuesday, in its first flight after two explosions this year.

Elon Musk postponed a SpaceX update on plans to launch missions to Mars following a Starship test flight. Despite previous setbacks, the billionaire aims to present new timelines for making life multiplanetary.

China embarked on Thursday on its first mission to retrieve samples from a nearby asteroid, with the nighttime launch of its Tianwen-2 spacecraft, set to make the fast-growing space power the third nation to fetch pristine asteroid rocks.

"Mission To Mars" is an optimistic film that chronicles the first manned mission to Mars that ends in tragedy when a raging red cyclone wipes out the entire crew but leaves one survivor after an ancient domed structure is revealed shaped like a humanoid face (ala the Cydonia conspiracy theory).

Scientists have been arguing about the origin of strange streaks on Mars since the earliest missions to the Red Planet.

It might be surprising to hear planetary scientist Nina Lanza use the word “disappointing” in the same sentence as “Mars.” After all, the Los Alamos National Laboratory researcher has dedicated her entire career to the Red Planet.

NASA’s Perseverance rover has reached a scientifically thrilling region on Mars called Krokodillen, where some of the planet’s oldest rocks may hold vital clues about early Martian environments — possibly even ancient life.