The car-sized Curiosity rover has spotted evidence of once quite hospitable environs on Mars. As shown in the imagery below, the NASA robot investigated dried-up lake beds and captured views of ...

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 ...

Earlier this month, outgoing NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and other agency officials presented two possible plans for the mission, known as Mars Sample Return, for the incoming administration.

During his inaugural address on January 20, 2024, President Donald Trump indicated he will prioritize U.S. space endeavors focused on Mars. While NASA has a long history of Martian exploration, ...

Nasa wants to send humans to Mars as early as the 2030s: a journey that would take around nine whole months. The red planet, which has become the first to be inhabited entirely by robots ...

NASA's beleaguered Mars Sample Return program currently faces extreme costs of up to $11 billion and a timeline that could reach 2040. The year 2025 isn't even a week old and NASA is already ...

At the Airbus Mars Yard in the UK, NASA engineers just tested out a strong candidate, based on a design first announced by Goodyear in 2010 and which has been in development since 2017.

NASA wants to return Mars samples to Earth, but budget problems and technical woes have the mission caught between a rock and the Red Planet. There appears to be an unofficial robotic space race ...

NASA's Mars Chopper concept, shown in a design software rendering. NASA has unveiled the successor of its highly successful Ingenuity helicopter that roamed over the surface of Mars for over three ...

Currently, Blue Origin is contracted by NASA to send its ESCAPADE science mission to Mars, as well as a a future human lunar lander known as Blue Moon. For now, there is a lot of uncertainty with ...

We have long been inspired by the idea that life could reside on Mars – human or otherwise. But fiction is getting closer to reality, says NASA’s former chief scientist, Jim Green.

For example, he has rarely criticized NASA or its overall goal to return humans to the moon through the Artemis program. Rather, Musk, who has long preferred Mars as a destination for humans ...