A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get ...

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson left a final decision on a new mission architecture to the next NASA administrator working ...

The Mars2020 Perseverance Rover took about 8 years to complete here on Earth. Built at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in ...

NASA rover Perseverance landed on Mars and recorded some interesting sounds from the surface. There are two unknown sounds that are unexplained by NASA. NASA states they are not from the rover.

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

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

Option one would use the same "sky crane" landing system proven with NASA's Curiosity and Perseverance Mars rovers, a smaller sample collection spacecraft, a smaller rocket to boost the samples ...

NASA proposes a faster, cheaper plan to bring Mars samples to Earth, aiming for delivery by the 2030s while cutting costs ...

The second option would include a landing system developed ... bring these samples back from Mars with significant cost and schedule saving," Nelson said. As for Perseverance, the rover's hunt ...

NASA announced Tuesday that it's exploring two landing options to move forward ... and using one of the spare arms on the Mars Perseverance rover to transfer the samples to the Sample Retrieval ...