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

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

Mars samples that could help us find alien life are stuck there until at least 2035, NASA says - The timeline for returning the samples from Mars will depend on its funding ...

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 ...

Curiosity and Perseverance. For example, the rover on the float is leaving behind the same wheel tracks as Curiosity — imprinting "JPL" in Morse code in the "Martian soil." The float was also ...

A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get ...

Dear friends, The whole world has watched in horror as massive fires rage out of control in southern California. While the ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover is skygazing and photographing lovely examples of noctilucent clouds on Mars. The wispy formations ...

NASA unveils a groundbreaking approach to bring Martian rock samples back to Earth by 2026, introducing competition between ...