SpaceX is moving quickly to position its Starship rocket for a potential uncrewed mission to Mars as early as late 2026, a milestone that, if achieved, would mark the first attempt by a private entity ...

The biomedicine outfit BioAstra aims to send its researcher on a flight around the Moon, aboard the leading-edge Orion spacecraft, to chart genetic changes triggered by cosmic rays and to develop anti ...

As NASA eyes Mars and the moon, scientists warn: the human brain may not bounce back from prolonged time in space.

As the Orion, the world’s most advanced deep-space capsule, counts down to circumnavigating the Moon, that trek could be the forerunner to a cascade of Mars missions in the 2030s. Shown here is a ...

CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION — In the end, poor weather forced Blue Origin on Sunday to scrub its second launch of its New Glenn rocket. It was supposed to send up NASA’s ESCAPADE mission, which ...