NASA"s beleaguered Mars Sample Return mission may get a reprieve from an unexpected source. Lockheed Martin has proposed a ...

NASA's Phoenix lander, which touched down on Mars in 2008, initially struggled to scoop the planet’s rusty red regolith into a device that heats the rocks to sniff out their components.

Why is Mars barren and uninhabitable, while life has always thrived here on our relatively similar planet Earth?

In an unexpected turn of events, NASA’s Curiosity rover has cracked open a rock on Mars, uncovering something so surprising ...

See Rocket Lab's "proposed mission architecture" for a Mars sample return mission in this animation. Credit: Rocket Lab ...