With Donald Trump now back in the White House, SpaceX's Elon Musk is more excited than ever about the prospect of his company ...

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

NASA's Perseverance rover has spotted an oddball rock in an ancient river channel on Mars. Deputy project scientist Katie ...

During his second inauguration speech, President Donald Trump endorsed a Mars mission as a part of America’s push into new ...

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

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

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

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

Two new potential strategies for returning crucial samples from Mars to Earth by the 2030s are now on the table, according to ...

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

In April, after an independent review found “near zero probability” of Mars Sample Return making its proposed 2028 launch ...

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