Flying some 140 million miles to Mars is one of NASA's biggest plans so far and a space expert has revealed exactly how ...

Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars will appear to line up and be bright enough to see with the naked eye in the first few hours ...

An exploding budget and an unraveling schedule spell disappointment for NASA's mission to learn more about Mars's history.

NASA has arrived at two ways of returning samples collected on Mars to Earth. Now, the agency will test the options to see if ...

We have long been inspired by the idea that life could reside on Mars – human or otherwise. But fiction is getting closer to ...

For centuries, we have been gazing into space with fascination, dreaming of travelling to distant planets. To make these ...

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

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NASA hopes a revised plan will get Mars samples back to Earth faster and cost less than the agency's original plan.

NASA recently deemed this situation unacceptable. In April 2024, agency chief Bill Nelson announced that an overhaul of the ...

NASA announced Tuesday that it is exploring two options to move forward with its mission to return samples from Mars at a ...

Researchers at NASA Langley are developing a next-gen system called MARVL (Modular Assembled Radiators for Nuclear Electric ...