A new study in Acta Astronautica suggests Mars missions could be drastically shortened by using early asteroid orbital data to find more direct transfer paths. Researchers identified asteroid 2001 ...

A new Acta Astronautica study indicates that preliminary orbital data from certain asteroids could help pinpoint quicker transfer routes to Mars, shortening round-trip missions to around 153 days.

A one-way trip to Mars takes somewhere between seven and 10 months, following a fairly direct route between Earth and our neighboring planet. But what if we could cut that journey by more than half, ...