With help from AI, scientists discovered a fresh crater made by an impact that shook material as deep as the Red Planet’s ...

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 ...

NASA's Perseverance Rover has made a remarkable discovery - a new sample collected from Mars "unlike anything we've ever seen before." The sample known as "Silver Mountain", is a rock core and the ...

For nearly half a century, NASA has been talking an awfully good game about its much-heralded Mars Sample Return (MSR) project. As long ago as 1978, the space agency requested funding to develop a ...

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 wants to send humans to Mars as early as the 2030s: a journey that would take around nine whole months. The red planet, which has become the first to be inhabited entirely by robots ...

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 ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has planned two new strategies to bring crucial samples from Mars to Earth, aiming for a return by the 2030s. These proposals offer ...

In what appears to be a jab at NASA, Rocket Lab this week unveiled its own plan to return rock and dust samples the space agency has been collecting from Mars’ Jezero Crater since 2021.