NASA's Opportunity rover landed on Mars! This was the second of NASA's twin Mars Exploration Rovers to land on the red planet ...

After the space agency canceled its VIPER rover, an empty space was available on a private spacecraft that will still head to ...

The NASA Mars Sample Return Program plans to bring these samples to Earth (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS) The rover has journeyed across more than 20 miles, according to an interactive map that ...

“We are profoundly honored to partner with him again," agency co-chairman Richard Lovett says of the former president's ...

Yet not much has changed since the days of the Sojourner rover of the Pathfinder mission, and that's something that simply won't work if we are to properly explore the Moon and Mars. There are ...

The adverse environment is challenging for humans to land on and explore. This is where a Mars rover comes in handy. The Zhurong Mars rover is named after the mythological fire deity Zhurong and ...

Any vehicle traversing the rocky terrain on Mars needs a sturdy set of wheels. NASA’s Perseverance rover, for example, sports thick aluminum ones covered in cleats to enhance its traction and ...

In 2018, for example, a global dust storm smothered the solar panels on NASA’s Opportunity rover. The rover died not long after. The team looked at two storms the planet experienced every Mars year ...

To that end, NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars has already collected and cached a bevy of samples since it arrived on the planet in 2021. "The agency's Mars Sample Return Program has been a major ...

Option one would use the same "sky crane" landing system proven with NASA's Curiosity and Perseverance Mars rovers, a smaller sample collection spacecraft, a smaller rocket to boost the samples ...

A Mars rover descends to the surface of the planet with the help of the sky crane system. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech illustration For both new approaches, the mission’s landing system would ...