Every 26 months, Earth passes directly between the Sun and Mars. This alignment, known as the Mars opposition, is when spacecraft set a course for the Red Planet. The astronomer behind the recent ...

A researcher says he found a possible shortcut to Mars that would halve the time it takes to travel to the planet and back to less than a year.

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft used Mars’ gravity to gain speed on its journey toward a strange metal-rich asteroid deep in the ...

A researcher says he found a possible shortcut to Mars that would shorten a roundtrip to Earth's planetary neighbor to as ...

SpaceX says it will launch a private flyby mission to Mars that will be led by cryptocurrency billionaire Chun Wang, but when ...

NASA's asteroid-bound Psyche spacecraft flew by Mars for a gravity assist on the way to its final target. And it took some ...

MARS feels like our best hope for living on another planet, but when will the first Martian city be up and running? And once ...

A new NASA satellite will test critical technologies for storing and transferring super-chilled, cryogenic fuels in space in ...

A round trip from Earth to Mars takes about three years. New research suggests a potential shortcut to Mars, inspired by an asteroid's orbital path, that would reduce the journey to as little as 153 ...