NASA's Mars Sample Return mission has long been a point of contention for the agency, but now someone might have a plan to ...

Two years into one of NASA’s most ambitious missions, the Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter continue to revolutionize our understanding of Mars. Since landing on the Red Planet, this robotic ...

The stakes couldn't be higher for NASA's Perseverance Rover as it prepares for its historic landing on Mars. With years of ...

NASA's Mariner 4 captured the first-ever close-up image of Mars on July 14, 1965. While waiting for the data to be processed ...

"One of the most successful and enduring feats of interplanetary exploration, NASA's Opportunity rover mission is at an end after almost 15 years exploring the surface of Mars and helping lay the ...

The aurora on Mars has been captured in a photograph for the first time. Elise Wright Knutsen, at the University of Oslo, has been checking solar ...

Understanding the similarities and differences of the deserts on Earth and Mars will help space travelers survive future ...

Our two-person team loaded the car with a GPS, a drone, notebooks, sample bags, a trowel and a flat spatula lovingly called a scoopula. Then we drove ...

White House takes aim at several projects failing to meet cost and schedule estimates—and several more that aren’t.

Strange cone-shaped rocks led scientists to the hidden remains of one of Earth’s oldest asteroid impacts. It could help us find fossil life on Mars.

Aerospace giant Lockheed Martin has proposed a new, relatively cheaper plan that could save NASA's Mars Sample Return (MSR) ...