Elon Musk and Donald Trump have announced ambitious plans to send a mission to Mars in 2026 and 2028. It’s not going to ...

A new image has emerged of the Red Planet rising above the lunar limb after being occulted by the moon in January.

Mars orbits at an average distance of 142 million miles (228 million km) from the sun. Its orbit is about 1.5 times the size of Earth's. Sunlight takes about 13 minutes to get to Mars, while it ...

Pulsar Fusion believes the Sunbird can slash the time it takes to reach Mars by half and carry spacecraft across vast ...

They do not preclude reaching the orbit of Mars from that of Earth. That is ... it would then have to work out how to transfer ultra-cold propellants from one ship to another—something never ...

In July 2020, ahead of the period of time when Mars and Earth are at their closest, the UAE will launch its first Mars orbiter mission On May 25, 1961, President Kennedy, in a passionate speech to ...

Fram2, the first human spaceflight to orbit ... humans on Mars, space medicine will become increasingly important. On long-duration missions to Mars – or even the moon – Earth is a long ...

"The differences between Mars and Earth are even greater than we thought. There is more asymmetry between the southern and northern hemispheres than previously believed," explains Pedro Machado ...

That's because Mars takes 687 Earth days to orbit the sun, and Earth takes 365 days, so Earth passes between Mars and the sun every 789 days.