The U.S. has or soon will have some capabilities that the Europeans lack for such a mission. The SpaceX Starship is first and foremost on that list. When operational, it will be able to loft in excess of 100 metric tons into low Earth orbit. That’s a lot of mass for an Enceladus probe to work with.

Recently, NASA announced that the Mars Perseverance rover has found indications that life may have at one time existed on the Red Planet. The announcement did not mark the first time the space agency had announced life on Mars. If it pans out, it may ...

SpaceX has not yet announced a target launch date for its next Starship flight 11, but Elon Musk has previously indicated his desire to ramp up testing to one or more a month. Starship most recently got off the ground Aug. 26 from SpaceX's Starbase for its ...

The update, shared in a series of photos Sept. 17 on social media, comes days after SpaceX recently tested the lower stage rocket booster, known as Super Heavy, at its Starbase facility. While it's unclear just when Starship could get off the ground again ...

After four years of discoveries and explorations on Mars, Nasa’s Perseverance Rover has found some unusual rocks on the planet’s surface, hinting at potential past life there. The mudstones were found in a dried-up riverbed in the Jezero Crater, marked ...

On Episode 177 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and and Tariq Malik are joined by Dr. Michael Tice to talk about a possible detection of ancient life on Mars. Tice is a research scientist, a planetary geologist at Texas A&M and is one of the paper's key ...