NASA's mission to return samples from Mars and potentially discover the first signs of alien life has a new timeline. The ...

NASA will explore two different strategies for fetching Mars rocks collected by the Perseverance rover, and there's a chance ...

Mars samples that could help us find alien life are stuck there until at least 2035, NASA says - The timeline for returning ...

NASA was formed in 1958 "to provide for research into problems of flight within and outside the Earth's atmosphere, and for ...

The next Mars rovers may traverse the Red Planet with futuristic tires. NASA 's Glenn Research Center released imagery and footage from testing of a novel tire, called a shape memory alloy spring tire ...

Debris from ancient volcanic eruptions on Mars could offer new clues in the search for alien life, a new study suggests. The newly discovered rock type was found littered across the landing site ...

The research, yet to be peer-reviewed, sheds light on what could have changed the orbits of several planets in the solar ...

The world's richest man who has long described Mars as critical to humanity's survival has an 'alien warning'. "If future aliens see us, they will say; there they had rocket and everything ...

Scientists have identified regions on Mars where conditions might support microbial life beneath the surface. Seasonal methane variations and Earth-based studies of similar environments suggest ...

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