Mars has received considerable attention in the past few decades, thanks to the many robotic missions exploring it to learn ...

NASA’s Mars Sample Return (MSR ... Last summer NASA, realizing the existing mission design was too far over-budget (up to $11 billion) and behind-schedule (samples returning in 2040), announced ...

The new design will have the capacity to withstand ... Theoretically, that would allow the vehicle to reach Mars in about 45 days, cutting existing travel estimates sixfold.

A paper published this month in the journal Aerospace details a preliminary design for a Mars sailplane that could fill in the science-observations gap between surface rovers and orbiting spacecraft.

Related: 1 year later, Ingenuity helicopter still going strong on Mars The Sojourner rover namesake spent nearly four months — 12 times its design lifetime ... with water existing in its ...

NASA announced Friday that it will award contracts to seven companies, including SpaceX and Blue Origin, to study how to transport rock samples from Mars more cheaply back to Earth. The space ...

NASA has two options for bringing rock and sediment samples from Mars ... leverage existing technology into a simpler, cheaper craft or turn to a commercial partner for a new design.