Landing missions are especially tricky ... But 20 seconds after beginning its first photographic scan, Mars 3’s signal went silent for good. On Christmas Day 2003, the British-built Beagle ...

On September 29, 2013, SpaceX performed the first supersonic retropropulsion (SRP) maneuver to decelerate the reentry of the ...

The first Starships to Mars will launch in 2 years when the next Earth-Mars transfer window opens. These will be uncrewed to test the reliability of landing intact on Mars. If those landings go well, ...

The Starship is at the heart of Elon Musk’s ambitious plan to send humans to Mars. This latest test flight showcased the rocket’s capabilities, with the first stage landing as planned and the ...

SpaceX's Starship vehicle that will one day propel humans deep into the cosmos launched Tuesday on its latest flight test as ...

Back in 2007, I talked with Rob Manning, engineer extraordinaire at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and he told me something shocking. Even though he had successfully led the entry, descent, and ...

Elon Musk announced that the first Starships to Mars will launch ... will be uncrewed to test the reliability of landing intact on Mars. If those landings go well, then the first crewed flights ...

Those first missions would be uncrewed, to test whether the spacecraft is capable of landing on Mars, but Musk says that human-crewed flights will follow in four years. Writing in a post on X ...

On November 23, 2015, a Blue Origin rocket made a historic landing. Before this time, all rockets were single-use only — even ...

• SpaceX is set to launch Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, on its sixth test flight from South Texas. • A ...

BEIJING -- China is poised to collect Martian samples and return them to Earth around 2031, with its foremost scientific goal ...