A world-leading designer of space robots says gigantic new rockets being tested by billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are ...

The study of ancient lava formations on Mars is the most complete to date from a series of observations conducted on the ...

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

An exploding budget and an unraveling schedule spell disappointment for NASA's mission to learn more about Mars's history.

American space agency NASA announced it is looking at two ways of landing hardware on Mars for the Sample Return mission, ...

This illustration shows a concept for multiple robots that would team up to ferry to Earth samples collected from the Mars surface by NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover. Credit ... agency will explore two ...

The Perseverance rover is building up a stash of rocks on ... the cost ballooned to $11 billion and the samples wouldn't be landing on Earth until 2040. So Nelson scrapped that plan in April ...

The second option would incorporate a landing system developed by private companies, though specifics about this approach remain limited in the latest update. Since Perseverance Rover landed on ...

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

open image in gallery NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover used one of its navigation cameras to take this image of flat terrain in Jezero Crater. This is one possible site that NASA may consider for ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover, which landed on Mars in 2021 ... This method would utilize the same rocket-steered landing platform that delivered NASA’s Curiosity and Perseverance rovers.