NASA Administrator Bill Nelson left a final decision on a new mission architecture to the next NASA administrator working ...

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

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

Four planets will be in the parade in January while seven will align in February. Here's how to see the events.

Aerojet Rocketdyne went a step farther, urging NASA to reduce the mass of the Mars rocket to reuse its sky crane. A Mars rover descends to the surface of the planet with the help of the sky crane ...

Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars will appear to line up and be bright enough to see with the naked eye in the first few hours ...

The first option will rely on the sky crane method ... two potential paths forward will ensure that NASA is able to bring these samples back from Mars with significant cost and schedule saving ...

Venus and Saturn are currently in conjunction, meaning the planets appear close together in the night sky from Earth. These ...

Early 2025 is a good time for skygazing and spotting up to seven planets in the night sky – if you have a little help.

The limited power of the sky crane would require a smaller ... Nelson and the outgoing NASA team have not yet discussed Mars Sample Return with Jared Isaacman, President-elect Donald Trump ...

Stargazers, prepare for the parade of planets that will take place over the next few nights in the sky. Here's what you need ...

The data used to create the image is from a Hubble Space Telescope project to capture and map Jupiter's superstorm system.