SpaceX founder Elon Musk delivers an update on the company's plans to go to Mars at Starbase in Texas. The talk was recorded and posted to X, a social platform also owned by Musk, on May 29, 2025. In ...
An artist’s conception of the Earth Return Orbiter (part of the Mars Sample Return mission) over Mars. Illustration: NASA/ESA/JPL-Caltech/GSFC Check, check—is this thing on? NASA officials will ...
NASA's beleaguered Mars Sample Return program currently faces extreme costs of up to $11 billion and a timeline that could reach 2040. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...
Elon Musk on Tuesday postponed by a few hours an expected update on SpaceX’s plan to launch missions to Mars, saying it will take place after a Starship test flight scheduled for later in the day. He ...
Update May 27, 8:42 p.m. EDT (0042 GMT): SpaceX launched Flight Test 9 of its Super Heavy Starship rocket at 7:37 p.m. EDT (2337 GMT; 6:37 p.m. local time in Starbase, Texas). The Super Heavy booster ...
SpaceX's billionaire founder Elon Musk says that despite Starship setbacks, the space company hasn't taken its eyes off the ball — and that ball is big, red, and roughly 140 million miles away. In a ...
The year 2025 isn't even a week old and NASA is already gearing up for its first big announcement, this one about the agency's ambitious, yet beleaguered, Mars sample return mission. Today (Jan. 7), ...