NASA is currently funding a revolutionary new propulsion system that could make it much easier to travel to Mars.
Major change is afoot regarding NASA's plans to return samples of Martian soil and rock to the Earth.
Launching a rocket takes a lot of energy, but what if it were possible to fire a spacecraft into space instead?
For years, the city of Pompeii has been associated with stories of bad luck inflicted on anyone who removes anything from the site.
Assistant Professor Peter Crockford takes a look at how much life has inhabited this planet since the first cell appeared.
After several delays earlier this month, the enigmatic vehicle has finally headed back into space atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket.
Fragments of the space rock rained down over Tatahouine, Tunisia - the filming location of Tatooine in Star Wars.
A new study has concluded that a Chinese rocket that crashed into the Moon in 2022 was carrying a mystery payload.
The rather unusual object was captured on camera in Jezero Crater by the Perseverance rover earlier this month.
PhD candidate Evgenii Krestianinov looks at the secrets revealed by a space rock found in the Sahara back in 2020.
The woman had been enjoying a coffee on a terrace when she was suddenly hit on the chest by a small space rock.
NASA's Perseverance rover recently captured an image of a curious rock shaped suspiciously like a donut.
Postdoctoral researcher David M. Witelson takes a look at the significance of one-horned animals in southern African rock art.
The new owners of the residential property got the fright of their lives when the space rock crashed through their ceiling.
The rover had been carrying the inadvertent passenger across the surface of Mars for over a year.
Caroline Sasaki was mere inches from certain death when a huge rock came crashing into her home at the weekend.
The space rock passed us by at a distance of 2,200 miles - a fraction of the distance at which some satellites orbit the Earth.
The new rocket will be designed to enable manned missions to the Red Planet and could debut as soon as 2027.
A new study has revealed the presence of a wealth of organic compounds in a rock believed to have come from Mars.
Social media was awash on Friday with reports of strange objects, vapor trails and colored lights over the country.