Last week, SpaceX revealed details of its investigation into why its previous Starship mission ended in a fireball that sent ...

If SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has his way, a version of the retro-looking launch vehicle seen here being built in Texas will one day shuttle humans to the moon, Mars, and beyond.

In 2026, NASA and ESA will launch the Mars Ascent Vehicle lander and rocket carrying the Sample Fetch Rover. Perseverance will witness and share images of the landing of this spacecraft on Mars ...

It will also deliver the Mars Ascent Vehicle – the first rocket that will ever launch from the Martian surface, with the samples tucked safely inside. A separate mission will launch from Earth ...

Then two more spacecraft would travel to the surface of Mars. One would dispatch a rover to pick up the samples. The other, an ascent vehicle, would blast them back into space, to Mars orbit.