"The Martian" succeeds in doing so ... He suggests that the re-supply launcher should rendezvous with the original spacecraft, The Hermes (where Mark's crew are at that moment), which will ...

The Red Planet and its tiny moon Deimos were recorded at a very near distance as the asteroid-chasing spacecraft completed a flyby on Wednesday.

SCIENCE FICTION: The Hermes spacecraft is what ferries astronauts to and from Mars in "The Martian." The most efficient way to power such a giant vehicle over 280 million miles of space is with ...

Replace the arid desert surface of Mars with a deserted island and "The Martian" is essentially "Cast Away" in space, but with slightly less emotional trauma and no volleyball (unless Wilson is a ...

but its miniature-helicopter stowaway — called Ingenuity — will be the first spacecraft of its kind. The robots are set to land in an ancient Martian lakebed called Jezero Crater, where ...