including those of NASA's Perseverance and Curiosity rovers, which are still exploring Mars, as well as inactive missions, like the Spirit and Opportunity rovers and the Phoenix lander.

Firefly Aerospace's first mission to the moon is poised to launch in the early morning hours on Jan. 15. The company's Blue ...

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

NASA’s retired InSight lander, now covered in Martian dust, continues to offer insights into Mars through images captured by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Over its four-year mission, InSight ...

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

NASA’s InSight lander was a very different mission from the space agency’s famous wheeled Mars rovers. It plunked down in the Elysium Planitia region in 2018 and stayed in one spot to study ...

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

After the space agency punts a decision on the mission’s profile to 2026, Rocket Lab unveils its own Mars Sample Return plan.

Ultimately, NASA settled on two options, with the key difference being the way a Mars sample retrieval lander is delivered to the planet’s surface. Option 1 is the sky crane method, which NASA ...

The Mars Sample Return effort was billions ... With a smaller rocket, NASA no longer had to build a lander that was larger than any it had ever made before. Instead, the mission could again ...

As originally envisioned, the Mars Sample Return mission, or MSR, was the most complex robotic planetary science mission ever attempted, one requiring a new NASA sample retrieval lander ...

This photomontage shows tubes containing samples from Mars, as collected by NASA’s Perseverance Mars ... to view this content That means that the lander for the mission will have to carry ...