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NASA developing plans for commercially-built Mars orbiter
NASA is advancing a plan to send a robotic orbiter to Mars in the early 2020s, developing designs with five U.S. satellite makers for a mission to extend high-resolution mapping capabilities, telecommunications relay functions, and potentially act as a waypoint for Martian soil samples destined for return to Earth.
40 years since Viking, scientists still on the hunt for life on Mars
Four decades after NASA's Viking landers acquired humanity's first view of the surface of Mars, a planet whose reality lived in the imaginations of skywatchers for millennia, a definitive smoking gun for microbial life there still eludes scientists.
Dragon cargo craft reaches port at International Space Station
A commercial resupply freighter owned and operated by SpaceX wrapped up a two-day trip to the International Space Station on Wednesday, delivering a new docking port and two tons of other equipment to research laboratory more than 250 miles above Earth.
Russian spacecraft delivers fuel and supplies to space station
A Progress refueling and resupply freighter linked up with the International Space Station's Pirs docking compartment Monday, two days after blasting off from Kazakhstan with more than 2.6 tons of cargo, propellants and water.
Gallery of photos from Monday’s Falcon 9 flight
Taking off and landing in the middle of the night at Cape Canaveral, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully delivered a Dragon supply ship to orbit for the International Space Station as the launcher's first stage booster swooped to a spectacular touchdown.
VideoPhotos: Progress MS-03 supply ship fires away from Kazakhstan
Russia's Progress MS-03 cargo crafted rode a Soyuz rocket into orbit Saturday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, beginning a two-day pursuit of the International Space Station.
SpaceX sends supplies to space station, lands another Falcon rocket
Rising into a midnight sky lit by the full moon, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket took off from Cape Canaveral early Monday with a commercial cargo craft on the way to the International Space Station, then returned to Florida's Space Coast for a dramatic nighttime landing.
Photos: Falcon 9 rocket lifted vertical for cargo launch
SpaceX hoisted its Falcon 9 rocket upright Sunday evening, hours before launching on a commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station. Technicians installed time-sensitive supplies into the Dragon cargo capsule earlier in the day.
Timeline for SpaceX’s ninth station resupply launch
Track the major milestones of Monday's launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral with a Dragon cargo craft heading for the International Space Station.
Live coverage: Commercial cargo craft completes space station rendezvous
SpaceX's Dragon supply ship reached the International Space Station on Wednesday, with astronaut Jeff Williams grappling the unpiloted spacecraft with the research lab's robotic arm at 6:56 a.m. EDT (1056 GMT) after an automated rendezvous.