We haven’t seen the Red Planet this luminous in the night sky since 2022. Our astrotourism expert shares how and when to enjoy the show.
NASA has arrived at two ways of returning samples collected on Mars to Earth. Now, the agency will test the options to see if ...
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NASA sees two paths for saving its beleaguered plan to retrieve materials from the Red Planet but won’t choose between them ...
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NASA's beleaguered Mars Sample Return program currently faces extreme costs of up to $11 billion and a timeline that could ...
Mars’ strangely small mass still puzzles planetary scientists. Definitive answers as to why are still hard to come by.
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson left a final decision on a new mission architecture to the next NASA administrator working ...
A very rare treat is about to grace Earth's night skies.