NASA’s Perseverance rover is studying rocks that show several eras in the history of a river delta billions of years old.

President Trump vowed to send American astronauts to the planet Mars in his inaugural address, envisioning a moment when the ...

Any vehicle traversing the rocky terrain on Mars needs a sturdy set of wheels. NASA’s Perseverance rover, for example, sports ...

A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get ...

Starship will also perform its first satellite deployment test, in addition to debuting a number of key upgrades.

In 2011, the 30-year space shuttle program ended as Atlantis touched down at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. With five shuttles ...

NASA has decided it's going to pursue parallel missions to attempt to retrieve samples of rock on Mars collected by rovers.

NASA has developed two alternatives for collecting the soil samples from Mars so that they can be scientifically examined in detail on Earth. However, a decision on the return will be left to the ...

(AP) — NASA is pitching a cheaper and quicker way of getting rocks and soil back from Mars, after seeing its ... size tubes by NASA’s Perseverance rover arrive here in the 2030s, well ahead ...

A European service vehicle would help return the cigar-sized samples. The second option uses new commercial capabilities to deliver the lander payload to the surface of Mars. Read: Wekiva Island hosts ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover, which landed on Mars in 2021, has been collecting samples in cigar-sized titanium tubes as part of the agency’s quest to uncover evidence of ancient microbial life.

A Mars rover descends to the surface of the planet with the help of the sky crane system. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech illustration For both new approaches, the mission’s landing system would ...