NASA's beleaguered Mars Sample Return program currently faces extreme costs of up to $11 billion and a timeline that could reach 2040. The year 2025 isn't even a week old and NASA is already ...

NASA wants to return Mars samples to Earth, but budget problems and technical woes have the mission caught between a rock and the Red Planet. There appears to be an unofficial robotic space race ...

Earlier this month, outgoing NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and other agency officials presented two possible plans for the mission, known as Mars Sample Return, for the incoming administration.

NASA's Mars Chopper concept, shown in a design software rendering. NASA has unveiled the successor of its highly successful Ingenuity helicopter that roamed over the surface of Mars for over three ...

Any vehicle traversing the rocky terrain on Mars needs a sturdy set of wheels. NASA’s Perseverance rover, for example, sports thick aluminum ones covered in cleats to enhance its traction and ...

For example, he has rarely criticized NASA or its overall goal to return humans to the moon through the Artemis program. Rather, Musk, who has long preferred Mars as a destination for humans ...

Seen at the center of this image, NASA’s retired InSight Mars lander was captured by the agency’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter using its High-Resolution Imaging ...

The further study of the ripple formations could help scientists to pinpoint how long these ancient lakes existed on Mars, giving early life the opportunity to grow. The NASA Curiosity rover ...

He will soon step down as NASA’s chief ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration. Nelson said he “pulled the plug” on the original sample return plan due to the soaring costs and the delay ...

Since then, Ingenuity has completed 60 flights on Mars, helping to survey and scout for areas of interest for further study. This view of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter was generated using data ...

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover used its right-front navigation camera to capture this first view over the rim of Jezero Crater on December 10, 2024, the 1,354th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.