Mars is a fascinating planet in our solar system. Over the years, space organizations have done a great deal of work to further explore Mars, including projects to get crews to the red planet ...

Mars' outer crust is 6 to 30 miles (10 to 50 km) thick and is composed mainly of iron, magnesium, aluminum, calcium and potassium, according to NASA. Below that is a rocky mantle that's 770 to ...

But there are some details about InSight that might surprise you. Here are 10 unexpected facts about NASA's InSight Mars lander to ponder. FIRST STOP: InSight will look inside Mars Our knowledge ...

If the probe gets off the pad as scheduled, it will reach Mars on Sept. 22, 2014. This 10-month journey is significantly longer than the trek endured by the Mars rover Curiosity, the last Red ...

Starship is capable of carrying crew and cargo to Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars. SpaceX's Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, exploded just after liftoff during a test flight today in Texas.

While most Mars missions take 10-12 years, the scientists at the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center completed the project in six years - and at half the cost, according to a tweet posted by Sheikh ...