Through its "Moon to Mars" program, NASA plans to send the first crewed missions to Mars by the end of the next decade. To ...

The company’s ambitious new Sunbird design aims to harness nuclear fusion in space, despite the fact that commercializing ...

NASA and SpaceX just launched a major resupply mission to the International Space Station, to deliver nearly 7,000 pounds of cargo—including food, equipment, and high-tech experiments. From robotic ...

The mission carried four passengers in a unique orbit around Earth that allowed humans to pass ... months at a time if humans ever venture to Mars. The Fram2 crew’s research included Mikkelsen ...

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 ...

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.

B finally form a communication and navigation system spanning from low Earth orbit to distant retrograde orbit.