NASA sees two paths for saving its beleaguered plan to retrieve materials from the Red Planet but won’t choose between them ...

NASA's mission to return samples from Mars and potentially discover the first signs of alien life has a new timeline. The ...

A look back at a few Mars 2020 mission highlights of 2024   Perseverance’s past year operating on the surface of Mars was ...

A Mars Sample Return Strategic Review team NASA formed in October 2024 assessed the studies and recommended the sampling program’s main architecture, including schedule and cost estimates.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson left a final decision on a new mission architecture to the next NASA administrator working ...

To maximize chances of successfully bringing the first Martian rock and sediment samples to Earth for the benefit of humanity ...

With 10 instruments and technology tests, Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander is part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload ...

The US$2.7-billion Perseverance rover collected the samples looking for evidence of past life, but NASA is dithering about ...

What happened on January 4 in world history? Here are 4 events worth remembering: See them above in our 57-second video, and below for more details! Get On This Day In History delivered straight to ...

Researchers believe dark rocks at the site of a future Mars rover landing mission may be left over from ancient volcanic ...

NASA's Spirit rover landed on Mars! Also known as Mars Exploration Rover 2, this was the first of NASA's twin rovers to land on the Red Planet. The other was named Opportunity. These rovers were ...

Justin Holcomb and colleagues argue that Mars' remnants, like crashed landers and rover tracks, are valuable heritage, not ...