Orbital dynamics show that President Trump’s pledge to land astronauts on Mars couldn’t happen until 2029 at the earliest.

Rocket Lab drops a hint. CEO Peter Beck all but admitted as much when last I interviewed him about Rocket Lab's plans back in ...

The rest of the 400 landings have come courtesy of SpaceX's powerful Falcon Heavy, whose first stage consists of three ...

Angry Astronaut and Nextbigfuture commenter are making the case that SpaceX and Elon Musk must switch to nuclear thermal rockets to colonize Mars. I will review that the nuclear thermal rocket program ...

Image: SpaceX's rocket made the test flight from a launch ... to build the first fully reusable spacecraft to get humans to Mars. "Every Starship launch is one more step closer towards Mars ...

SpaceX successfully caught the returning rocket booster at the launch tower ... the moon and even Mars. Under NASA's lunar exploration plans, Artemis III astronauts aboard the Orion capsule ...

Exciting as this prospect may be, though, Mars isn't what will turn Rocket ... rise to become the second most frequent U.S. rocket launcher after SpaceX, and also Rocket Lab's efforts to develop ...

In fact, Tuesday's success brought the number of its orbital-class rocket landings ... reusable vehicle that SpaceX is developing to help humanity settle the moon and Mars, among other tasks.

After launching on Thursday, the Starship rocket caught the booster back at the pad but lost contact with the ascending ...

SpaceX launched a new Starship rocket on Thursday ... Starship is also a passion project to eventually send people to Mars and build a self-sustaining city on the Red Planet.