Only the US, Russia and China have previously docked in space. The expertise is critical for advanced missions.

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured images of kidney bean-shaped frozen sand dunes in Mars' northern hemisphere, ...

at least you can enjoy these images of a "winter" wonderland on Mars. Taken by the German-built High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on the European Space Agency's (ESA) Mars Express orbiter in ...

Yet another spacecraft, from the European Space Agency ... of the Mars Sample Return at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.Credit...Patrick T. Fallon/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Mr. Nelson ...

The overarching goal of the Mars Sample Return Program is to deepen our understanding of the universe and investigate whether Mars ever harbored life.

China's Tianwen-3 mission aims to return Martian soil by 2031, outpacing NASA’s delayed Mars sample return mission, now set ...

Possible missions to Mars' surface in the next decade include an effort jointly planned by NASA and the European Space Agency to retrieve ... planned by ESA and India. How much human-made debris ...

Though 2025 won't mark the return of astronauts into deep space as NASA had hoped, launchpads still will be scorching-hot ...

India has docked two satellites in space to become the fourth nation in the world to achieve the mission in an ambitious ...

Korolev crater on Mars resembles a vast field of snow but is actually filled with ice. The photo is indeed real, according to the European Space Agency (ESA). The ESA's Mars Express mission ...

NASA announced Tuesday that it's exploring two landing options to move forward with its mission to retrieve environmental samples from Mars at a lower cost. The goal of the Mars Sample Return Program, ...