It’s a virtual mission to Mars. Our first mission to Mars may still be a ways off, but people can take a virtual tour of the Red Planet thanks to a brand new video by the Mars Express Orbiter. People ...

Mars is cold, has a very strong radiation environment, no magnetic field, a very low-pressure atmosphere and it’s all carbon dioxide, so you can’t breathe there. And there are no nutrients to grow ...

Supersonic milestone: NASA rotor blades reached Mach 1.08 in tests, marking the first time Mars-bound rotors have broken the sound barrier. Why it matters: The breakthrough increases lift by 30%, ...

For years, nuclear propulsion sat in the same category as so many ambitious space ideas, impressive on paper, always a few ...