SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has backed a mission to Mars to investigate the remarkable 'square structure' that was captured on NASA's Mars Orbiter Camera. The image, which has gone viral after being ...

A section of the Sayh al Uhaymir 008 meteorite which was found in Oman in 1999 A small chunk of Mars will be heading home when the US space agency launches its latest rover mission on Thursday.

NASA reports another fascinating discovery made by the Perseverance rover on Mars. In Jezero Crater, the rover has found a ...

Trump’s pledge to go to Mars without mentioning the moon has caused some head-scratching and even consternation in the media.

But the decision to defer a final decision on the mission architecture keeps Mars Sample Return in limbo. “Yet more studies and no firm decision,” Casey Dreier, head of space policy for the ...

Continuing the Artemis program and using its planned lunar space station as a staging post would be a more energy efficient ...

An curved arrow pointing right. 2015 marked 50 years of successful NASA missions to Mars which started with Mariner 4 in 1965. These are the NASA rovers and satellites currently exploring the planet.

The year 2025 isn't even a week old and NASA is already gearing up for its first big announcement, this one about the agency's ambitious, yet beleaguered, Mars sample return mission. Today (Jan. 7 ...

Ed Stone, the scientist who guided NASA’s breakthrough Voyager mission to the outer planets for 50 years and led the Jet Propulsion Laboratory when it landed its first rover on Mars, died Tuesday.

President Trump pledges in inaugural address to pursue policy that 'expands our territory' and to put US astronauts on Mars.

The scientists stress more research is needed before a crewed mission to Mars. The big question now is: if the risk is too great, will we still try? More from Science Scientists have long known ...