A researcher says he found a possible shortcut to Mars that would halve the time it takes to travel to the planet and back to ...

The race to Mars has quietly become the defining contest of twenty-first century spaceflight, pitting a state-backed Chinese program, a commercially driven SpaceX campaign, and a methodical NASA ...

Editor's note: All opinions, columns and letters reflect the views of the individual writer and not necessarily those of the IDS or its staffers. Rovers on Mars have made exciting finds and ...

The landscape of space exploration has shifted dramatically in 2026, defined less by the grand plans of the past decade and more by the hard realities of budget and the breathtaking data pouring in ...

In a mission update late last month, Perseverance team members described the rover's most detailed look yet at a class of features called aeolian megaripples, oversized ripples of sand that can rise ...