Welcome to Edition 7.30 of the Rocket Report! The US government relies on SpaceX for a lot of missions. These include ...

An international team, including researchers from UNIGE and NCCR PlanetS, has discovered a super-Earth, referred to as HD ...

Some worlds, however, have more elongated orbits. The degree of elongation, known as eccentricity, is measured on a scale of ...

Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, we detected more than 7000 of them in our Galaxy. But there are still billions more to be discovered! At the same time, exoplanetologists have ...

The distance between Earth and Mars changes constantly due to their orbits, and the technology used to propel spacecraft plays a significant role in determining travel time. In this article ...

The 60-80 day transit time is significantly faster than typical Mars transfer orbits, which take around 6-8 months. This accelerated timeline would require substantial additional propellant. SpaceX’s ...

These two planets are visible in the southwest sky.Mars is currently at opposition from the Sun. That means the Sun and the "Red Planet" are directly opposite from each other with Earth in the middle.

More than 15 years later, President George H.W. Bush called for further missions to Earth’s satellite and eventually to Mars. Bush’s Space Exploration Initiative kicked off in July 1989 — 20 ...

Musk, undeterred, said the company still plans to launch uncrewed missions to the Red Planet as early as 2026, when the planets' orbits will next align. (Earth/Mars "transfer windows," as such ...