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

The space agency will provide a broadcast update on the marquee mission that is intended to recover samples of Martian rock ...

We may be about to discover the fate of the Mars samples collected by NASA's Perseverance rover. On Tuesday, January 7 at 1:00 pm EST, NASA administrator Bill Nelson and associate administrator Nicky ...

Since its deployment in February 2021, Perseverance has been diligently collecting samples of Martian rock and soil, which ...

We're hurtling toward a new era of mega-rockets with enough power to send colonists to the red planet, but should we?

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.

NASA to unveil new Mars Sample Return mission strategies Perseverance rover’s Mars samples key to Mars exploration Timeline pushed back to 2040 due to rising costs ...

Ingenuity may be down, but it's not out. Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) gave an update on the downed Ingenuity Mars helicopter on Wednesday (Dec. 11) during the 2024 Annual ...

NASA has plans to return humans to the moon with the Artemis mission—but Elon Musk’s preference for Mars could have influence ...

The "Mars Chopper" as NASA is calling it, appears bulkier compared to its predecessor and has a greater payload capacity.

NASA sees Mars as a goal for the 2030s ... and about one-third of Earth's gravity. Can humans even live on Mars? In a perfect universe, we would change Mars to be more like Earth.

Related: NASA's downed Ingenuity helicopter has a 'last gift' for humanity — but we'll have to go to Mars to get it Grip added that, while the team's investigation is over, it is far from ...