One of the first men to orbit the Moon has told BBC Radio 5 Live that it's "stupid" to plan human missions to Mars. Bill Anders, lunar module pilot of Apollo 8, the first human spaceflight to ...

If MarCO makes its planned Mars flyby, it will attempt to relay data from InSight as it enters the planet’s atmosphere and lands. If everything goes as planned, InSight will deliver data about ...

Images gathered during the flyby will beam home in early January, followed by scientific data later in the month when the probe swoops further away from the sun, Nour Rawafi, who is the project ...

Numbering the years gives scientists a common point of reference that predates the first successful Mars flyby mission—NASA’s Mariner 4 in 1965. Since then, humanity has sent a succession of ...