Massive Mars meteoroid strike that set off 'marsquake' helps NASA understand Red Planet's crust and core - NASA researchers ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) wants to develop key technologies for a Mars surface lander by the mid-2030s.

A world-leading designer of space robots says gigantic new rockets being tested by billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are ...

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The ‘Martian dichotomy’ is one of the Solar System’s greatest mysteries – but new research in closing in on a solution.

During a briefing on January 7, the US space agency confirmed it had whittled down the options to two: The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which would employ the sky crane technology - used to land ...

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson left a final decision on a new mission architecture to the next NASA administrator working under the incoming Trump administration. President-elect Donald Trump ...

Continuing the Artemis program and using its planned lunar space station as a staging post would be a more energy efficient ...

Mars Sample Retrieval Lander Concept Illustration: A Sample Retrieval Lander would launch in 2028, carrying a NASA-led Mars rocket and small Mars helicopters. JPL-Caltech/NASA At the time ...

The Mars Sample Return mission has been ranked as the highest priority by planetary scientists, who hope to find signs of ancient life on Mars.

The Martian dichotomy came to light in the 1970s following the Viking Probe's transmission of remarkably detailed Martian ...