An exploding budget and an unraveling schedule spell disappointment for NASA's mission to learn more about Mars's history.

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

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

NASA has arrived at two ways of returning samples collected on Mars to Earth. Now, the agency will test the options to see if ...

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

NASA hopes a revised plan will get Mars samples back to Earth faster and cost less than the agency's original plan.

A new preprint study looking at data from NASA's Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat ...

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

NASA announced Tuesday that it is exploring two options to move forward with its mission to return samples from Mars at a ...

NASA will explore two different strategies for fetching Mars rocks collected by the Perseverance rover, and there's a chance ...

NASA is pitching a cheaper and quicker way of getting rocks and soil back from Mars. Administrator Bill Nelson presented two ...

NASA's mission to return samples from Mars and potentially discover the first signs of alien life has a new timeline. The ...