A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral on Wednesday morning carrying two private lunar landers into orbit in ...
The Blue Ghost mission is one of four Firefly is working on as part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative.
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.
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 ...
An exploding budget and an unraveling schedule spell disappointment for NASA's mission to learn more about Mars's history.
NASA announced Tuesday that it is exploring two options to move forward with its mission to return samples from Mars at a ...
The spacecraft built and operated by Texas-based Firefly Aerospace launched in the early Monday hours from Florida aboard a ...
NASA unveils a groundbreaking approach to bring Martian rock samples back to Earth by 2026, introducing competition between ...
Artist's rendering of a Mars lander that could retrieve Perseverance's samples and send them to Earth. Credit: NASA/ESA/JPL-Caltech/GSFC/MSFC NASA kicked off the new ...
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 ...
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 ...