For the first time in more than five years, humanity has launched a mission to Mars — but it won't be arriving at the Red ...

On November 13, 1971, Mariner 9 became the first spacecraft to orbit Mars. At the time, scientists didn't know much about the ...

Blue Origin, owned by Jeff Bezos, plans to challenge SpaceX with the powerful, partially reusable New Glenn rocket.

After a weather delay dashed its first launch attempt over the weekend, Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket has lifted off Thursday from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

A NASA mission is set to launch twin spacecraft on a journey to Mars. The robotic orbiters could lift off atop Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket as soon as Sunday.

PASADENA, Calif. -- The Martian sky just got a little more crowded. After a seven-month cruise, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on Friday joined a small fleet of spacecraft flying around Mars, a ...

Mars is a cold, dry, desert-like planet. But billions of years ago, scientific evidence suggests that it had a thick ...

The New Glenn rocket lifted off about 45 minutes later than scheduled due to an unplanned hold with 20 seconds to go.

The first full-duration simulation of a manned voyage to Mars has reached a major milestone: the ‘spacecraft’ yesterday ‘arrived’ at Mars after 244 days of virtual interplanetary flight. Three ...

MOSCOW, Nov 9 (Reuters) - A Russian spacecraft designed to bring back soil samples from one of the moons of Mars veered off course on Wednesday after its launch, clouding hopes Russia could pull off ...