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

NASA's beleaguered Mars Sample Return program currently faces extreme costs of up to $11 billion and a timeline that could ...

For centuries, we have been gazing into space with fascination, dreaming of travelling to distant planets. To make these ...

NASA recently deemed this situation unacceptable. In April 2024, agency chief Bill Nelson announced that an overhaul of the ...

The Mars Sample Return mission has been ranked as the highest priority by planetary scientists, who hope to find signs of ...

Researchers at NASA Langley are developing a next-gen system called MARVL (Modular Assembled Radiators for Nuclear Electric ...

NASA is weighing two options to return samples from Mars — one using proven technology and another that seeks help from ...

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

The company has outlined its proposed architecture to return martian rock and dust samples to Earth for research.

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter, which flew on Mars in April 2021, became the first aircraft to achieve powered, controlled flight on a planet other than Earth.

In a groundbreaking effort to enhance lunar exploration, NASA has launched the Blue Ghost Mission 1, featuring a suite of ...