Things are about to get a little quiet between NASA ... all thanks to the sun. The Mars solar conjunction takes place between October 2 and 16, and this lapse of check-ins between Earth and ...

But the company is targeting a characteristically ambitious timeline of perhaps 2022 for the first uncrewed missions to Mars, Wooster said. Full coverage: SpaceX's historic Demo-2 astronaut launch ...

Mars Orbiter ... the Chandrayaan-2 mission to land near the moon’s south pole was ambitious, ISRO’s real tricks are coming up. "The chicken-hearted can't do planetary missions,” says ...

SpaceX isn’t alone in working toward reaching Mars, however. In fact, there are quite a number of missions ... was launched along with the Beagle 2 lander by the European Space Agency on ...