Fifty years ago, scientists recovered samples of potential extraterrestrial life, but may have unintentionally destroyed it ...

A British propulsion company is aiming to harness nuclear fusion and drastically cut travel times to far off places in space.

Mars has two moons, named Phobos and Deimos, but because Phobos is closer to Mars, it has been previously imaged by other spacecraft. "For Deimos, we don't have as many images as Phobos, so all ...

A space probe flying past Mars captured images of the red planet's small, mysterious moon. While on a flyby of Mars, Hera was able to use three of its imaging instruments to capture images of ...

British startup Pulsar Fusion has unveiled Sunbird, a space rocket concept designed to meet spacecraft in orbit, attach to them, and carry them to their destination at breakneck speed using nuclear ...

The first spacecraft to successfully reach Mars was NASA's Mariner 4 probe, in July 1965. Flying without any humans aboard, the probe soared past Mars and sent back photos of the planet's surface ...

Hera spacecraft successfully tested its autonomous surface feature tracking system during a high-speed flyby of Mars, marking ...

Given these similarities, it’s reasonable to expect uranium on Mars. The Mars Odyssey spacecraft, equipped with a gamma-ray spectrometer, mapped the distribution of radioactive elements like thorium ...

A U.K. space tech company has revealed a secret project that could change how humans travel between planets. After ten years ...