Nuclear thermal propulsion fuel could reduce the travel time for missions to Mars from six months to just 45 days.

The next Mars rovers may traverse the Red Planet with futuristic tires. NASA 's Glenn Research Center released imagery and footage from testing of a novel tire, called a shape memory alloy spring tire ...

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

The president’s Inaugural Address linked landing on the Red Planet with Manifest Destiny, but left many of the specifics ...

NASA proposes a faster, cheaper plan to bring Mars samples to Earth, aiming for delivery by the 2030s while cutting costs ...

General Atomic's new nuclear fuel was subjected to the maximum heat of a reactor for 20 minutes in the latest tests.

Boise State physics professor Brian Jackson worked with NASA to get access to Ingenuity flight data. He used it to analyze ...

Shape memory alloys are metals that can return to their original shape after being bent, stretched, heated, and cooled.

The wheels of rovers wear out badly on Mars. NASA is testing new types of wheels made from a special alloy that are less susceptible to deformation.

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

We have long been inspired by the idea that life could reside on Mars – human or otherwise. But fiction is getting closer to ...

The data used to create the image is from a Hubble Space Telescope project to capture and map Jupiter's superstorm system.