China’s next Mars explorer is not a rover that crawls or a helicopter that hovers, but a hybrid drone that can roll across the ground and then leap into the thin air when terrain turns hostile. By ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Roger Wiens has been a Mars explorer since he was 11 years old. He grew up as a kid looking through a telescope at The Red Planet with his brother and sketching its features. “That was ...

For thousands of years, Mars aka the Red Planet, has fascinated skywatchers from countless civilizations and cultures, leading some to speculate that it was a lush world full of life. However, the ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA's newest robotic explorer, Maven, rocketed toward Mars on Monday on a quest to unravel the ancient mystery of the red planet's radical climate change. The Maven spacecraft ...

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 ...