NASA's ambitious Mars sample-return mission faces budget and timeline challenges, but private space company Rocket Lab may ...

An exploding budget and an unraveling schedule spell disappointment for NASA's mission to learn more about Mars's history.

A switch to Mars would impact programs such as the moon-focused Space Launch System, a multibillion-dollar rocket that ...

NASA has arrived at two ways of returning samples collected on Mars to Earth. Now, the agency will test the options to see if ...

From windswept craters to frigid ice caps, explore Martian landscapes through the eyes of NASA’s orbiters, probes and rovers ...

If you are fortunate to live in the occultation zone and the weather cooperates, this upcoming event is one that really ...

Researchers at NASA Langley are developing a next-gen system called MARVL (Modular Assembled Radiators for Nuclear Electric ...

It’s a term used by astronomers to describe when Earth, Mars and the Sun align. When this happens, Earth sits directly ...

The trip to Mars and back is not one for the faint of heart. We're not talking days, weeks, or months. But there are ...

The Perseverance rover has been collecting Martian rock samples since 2021, but NASA is still figuring out how to bring them ...

The Mars Sample Return mission has been ranked as the highest priority by planetary scientists, who hope to find signs of ...

NASA will explore two different strategies for fetching Mars rocks collected by the Perseverance rover, and there's a chance ...