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A small, autonomous helicopter could soon soar above the rusty rocks of Mars. Dubbed the Mars Helicopter, the rotorcraft is hitching a ride to the Red Planet as part of NASA's Mars 2020 rover mission. The BBC said this could...

NASA has announced the funding of a new research effort that will explore the possibility of using robot bees to study the Martian surface. NASA has appropriately called the concept the Marsbee, and the team hopes to develop...

Elon Musk predicts that his company SpaceX will be capable of operating a full mission to Mars - from launch to landing and back again - as soon as 2019. "I think we’ll be able to do short flights, up and down flights,...

Elon Musk has predicted that his company SpaceX will be capable of facilitating a successful mission to Mars, from launch to landing and back again, as soon as 2019. "I think we’ll be able to do short flights, up and down...

Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn: those are the planets stargazers in the Northern Hemisphere will be able to glimpse this week during what The Weather Channel called a planet parade...

Starman, the "driver" of Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster as it cruises through the cosmos, may be carrying the largest collection of terrestrial bacteria ever sent into space. “Even if they radiated the outside, the engine...

In what may be the greatest car commercial of all time, SpaceX has released a video portraying the journey of the mannequin Starman and Elon Musk's red Tesla Roadster riding the Falcon Heavy rocket through space...

In what may be the greatest car commercial of all time, SpaceX has released a video portraying the journey of the mannequin Starman and Elon Musk's red Tesla Roadster riding the Falcon Heavy rocket through space...

Researchers at NASA, Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Department of Energy announced they have successfully tested a small nuclear reactor that may someday provide power to human habitats on Mars and beyond...

Researchers at NASA, Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Department of Energy announced they have successfully tested a small nuclear reactor that may someday provide power to human habitats on Mars and beyond...

Leave it to Elon Musk to follow up on a crazy idea. Earlier this month he said he'd send his personal Tesla Roadster to Mars aboard SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket, and some people wondered if he was joking. But the SpaceX CEO...

If you were a billionaire running multiple groundbreaking companies, why wouldn't you send your personal car to space? That seems to be Elon Musk's latest plan...

If you were a billionaire running multiple groundbreaking companies, why wouldn't you send your personal car to space? That seems to be Elon Musk's latest plan...

If humans start constructing cities on Mars, we have an opportunity to build sustainably from the start. A Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) team designed an environmentally friendly city for the red planet that...

NASA just performed the first test of its supersonic parachute as part of its Mars 2020 mission. This essential component will allow Mars-bound spacecraft to slow down as they enter the planet's atmosphere whilst traveling...