CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION — NASA and Blue Origin are planning to launch the ESCAPADE mission, where a pair of satellites will study Mars' magnetosphere. ESCAPADE will eventually help future ...

NASA's Van Allen Probe A reentered Earth's atmosphere on March 10, 2026, concluding 14 years of groundbreaking research on radiation belts.

Iran has reportedly destroyed a key high-value U.S. missile defense radar, dealing a major blow to Washington’s air-defense network in the Gulf. According to a Bloomberg report citing a U.S. official, ...

The United States has relocated additional MIM-104 Patriot missile system batteries to Osan Air Base, raising speculation that some defence assets could be redeployed to the Middle East amid tensions ...

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In a study published on Feb. 2 in Communications: Earth & Environment, an international team of researchers reveals how, in 2023, an atypical storm during Mars’ northern summer lifted water into the ...

Elon Musk has long had a passion for Mars. The moon? It's a diversion. But that plan has now shifted. SpaceX will “prioritize going to the moon first,” said The Wall Street Journal. Just last year, ...

Elon Musk said Sunday that SpaceX is shifting its near-term priorities away from Mars and toward building what he described as a "self-growing city" on the moon, citing faster timelines and strategic ...

As more than 120 million people tuned in to the Super Bowl for kickoff on Sunday evening, SpaceX founder Elon Musk turned instead to his social network. There, he tapped out an extended message in ...

SpaceX is putting its longstanding focus of sending humans to Mars on the back burner to prioritize establishing a settlement on the moon, founder Elon Musk said Sunday. The South Africa-born ...

I’ve read that the planned crewed Mars missions will take six months or two years to arrive. Which is it? Could a longer trip be due to the heavy payload? Our rovers took only eight to nine months to ...

An illustration of a SpaceX "BFR" spaceship, a precursor to Starship, at a notional future lunar base from a 2017 speech by Elon Musk Credit: SpaceX WASHINGTON — A little more than a year after ...