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

NASA's Perseverance rover is scaling the western rim of Mars' Jezero Crater, facing its toughest challenge yet. The rover's mission team is employing various strategies to navigate the steep, slippery ...

NASA is pitching a cheaper and quicker way of getting rocks and soil back from Mars, after seeing its original plan swell to ...

NASA has announced two new approaches to the Mars sample return mission that could save billions of dollars and at least a year in the timeline.

NASA has unveiled a revised, cost-effective plan to return Mars samples, aiming for a faster, $6-7 billion mission.

Previously, the Mars Sample Return mission had been estimated to cost around 11 billion dollars and would not return a sample ...

NASA announced Tuesday their new approach to their Mars Sample Return Program. The agency will develop two landing ...

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

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter, which flew on Mars in April 2021, became the first aircraft to achieve powered, controlled flight on a planet other than Earth.

NASA's beleaguered Mars Sample Return program currently faces extreme costs of up to $11 billion and a timeline that could ...

NASA's Spirit rover landed on Mars! Also known as Mars Exploration Rover 2, this was the first of NASA's twin rovers to land on the Red Planet. The other was named Opportunity. These rovers were ...

The space agency’s Mars Ingenuity helicopter crashed on the ... image of the Chang’e-6 lander captured by the Jinchan mini-rover. Source: Wikimedia China’s space administration made history ...