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 ...

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 ...

So, is NASA still going to the moon, or is the Trump administration preparing to abandon the moon and send astronauts straight to Mars? Trump’s pledge to go to Mars without mentioning the moon ...

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured a photo of frozen sand dunes in Mars' northern hemisphere. Taken in September 2022, the photo shows the dunes covered in carbon dioxide frost. The frost ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

This illustration shows a concept for multiple robots that would team up to ferry to Earth samples collected from the Mars surface by NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA ...

Jan. 29, 2025 — Scientists detected all five nucleobases -- building blocks of DNA and RNA -- in samples returned from asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx ...

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.