For astronaut safety and to bolster success of the human exploration to come later, NASA needs an end-to-end demonstration of ...

Another view from Perseverance shows how windswept Mars' landscape truly is.

Thanks to Einstein’s relativity, time flows differently on Mars than on Earth. NIST scientists have now nailed down the ...

Discover how advanced rovers and orbiters work together to study Mars in unprecedented detail. From mobile laboratories like ...

U.S. plans to return Mars samples face delays as China advances its own mission. Scientists and policymakers debate costs, timelines, and the role of sample return in future Mars exploration ...

Congress largely rejected the massive NASA cuts proposed earlier in 2025 and approved a fiscal year 2026 budget that kept ...

There’s a lot of energy right now around taking big leaps with deep-space missions, as sustained lunar activity and Mars exploration gain momentum. Commercial players are leading, but major leaps ...

A newly identified region on Mars may hold the key to future human landings. Researchers found evidence of water ice less ...

On04, NASA's Spirit rover landed on Mars! Also known as Mars Exploration Rover 2, this was the first of NASA's twin rovers to ...

A test model of the Perseverance rover, designed to explore the surface of Mars, sits in a garage at NASA’s Jet Propulsion ...

Perseverance rover found a rock on Mars named Phippsaksla with so much iron and nickel that it could be a meteorite.

NASA’s Perseverance rover continues collecting and studying Mars samples as uncertainty grows over the future of the Mars Sample Return program.