For astronaut safety and to bolster success of the human exploration to come later, NASA needs an end-to-end demonstration of ...

NASA's Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission, designed to bring drilled rock samples from the Martian surface back to Earth to ...

On a battered rock in an ancient Martian riverbed, a pattern of dark, rounded patches has jolted planetary science. These ...

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is continuing its mission to collect samples despite uncertainty about when or if those ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover continues collecting and studying Mars samples as uncertainty grows over the future of the Mars Sample Return program.

See Rocket Lab's "proposed mission architecture" for a Mars sample return mission in this animation. Credit: Rocket Lab ...

Nasa has transformed Mars exploration in 2025 through the Perseverance rover, ESCAPADE twin-spacecraft, and groundbreaking ...

The final appropriations bill aims to maintain NASA's budgets from 2024 and 2025, instead of cutting the agency's allocations ...

Right now one of the most advanced planetary explorers ever built is scouring the surface of Mars. Supported by a team of hundreds of scientists back on Earth, the Perseverance rover has traveled ...

The race to Mars has quietly become the defining contest of twenty-first century spaceflight, pitting a state-backed Chinese ...

On Monday, Congress made good on those promises, releasing a $24.4 billion budget plan for NASA as part of the conferencing ...

When the Perseverance rover arrived on Mars nearly five years ago, NASA officials thought the next American lander to take aim on the red planet would be taking shape by now. At the time, the leaders ...