Opinion - NASA mulls sending a nuclear-powered Mars rover to the moon

Such a proposal represents outside-the-box thinking for NASA, which is becoming more common under Isaacman’s leadership.

NASA declares its Mars Maven spacecraft dead after six months of silence

NASA's Maven spacecraft around Mars has been declared dead after six months of radio silence ...

NASA considers sending a spare Mars rover to the moon to rev up preparations for lunar base

Space agency provides updates on lunar lander missions — and teases a World Cup soccer-ball moonshot.

After 11 years at Mars, NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft went out with a whisper

NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft was in excellent shape when it disappeared behind Mars on December 6 of last year. The routine passage, called an occultation, was supposed to last less than an hour, but ...

NASA's Mars MAVEN probe is dead

NASA has officially ended the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission, six months after it lost contact with the probe. MAVEN was the agency's first program dedicat ...
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How can we fuel visits to Mars?

We don’t need any advanced propulsion to get to Mars,” says Robert Zubrin, founder of the Mars Society and the astronautical engineering company Pioneer Astronautics. “We can do it with chemical ...