In this week’s episode of Space Minds former Navy Captain, shuttle astronaut and current president of the Space operating group for ASRC Federal Scooter Altman reflects on his career, from ...

"One of the benefits of Mars is life insurance for life collectively," Musk said in an interview with Fox News. "So ...

Elon Musk is taking the long view. The billionaire SpaceX founder has long said that humanity needs to expand its footprint ...

Wave-like soil patterns on the Martian surface match those found in Earth's cold, mountain regions, which could help ...

China has achieved a milestone feat, making the first-ever laser ranging measurement from Earth to the moon during the daytime.

James is a published author with four pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, strange science, ...

A Soviet spacecraft is expected to come hurtling back to Earth after being stuck in orbit for more than 50 years. The Kosmos ...

As an aerospace engineering professor, I study how drag affects the movement of spacecraft in orbit. Aerobraking, as the name suggests, is a type of maneuver that uses the thin air in space to apply a ...

Elon Musk reveals the chilling reason behind his urgent push to colonize Mars. With Earth’s future uncertain, Mars may be ...

Observers say proposed cuts to science and other programs undermine increased funding for human space exploration efforts.

Mars may be dry, dusty, and far from hospitable today, but new research suggests it once shared more in common with Earth ...

The most recent claim by Musk comes as he has pressed for years to travel to Mars, stating that humans have “several hundred-million years” left on Earth.