The most recent U.S. landing on Mars was that of NASA’s Perseverance rover, which touched down in the Jezero crater in 2021 and has since been collecting samples for a later return to Earth.

China’s plans for exploration of Mars have moved up by two years, meaning it hopes to launch its Tianwen 3 Mars sample return ...

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China’s historic attempt to bring samples from Mars to Earth could launch as soon as 2028, two years earlier than previously ...

With a diameter of around 960 kilometers, it is not only the largest body between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter ... found outside Consus Crater are also located within deep craters.

The Artemis program aims to land humans on the moon for the first time since the Apollo missions managed to achieve the feat ...

NASA’s Artemis campaign aims to revisit the moon with a focus on the lunar south pole, targeting Shackleton Crater for its ...

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Portuguese Space Agency (PT Space) announced the winners of the 2024 PROSSE initiative and one of the selected projects, ...

“Over millions of years, material from this ring gradually fell to Earth, creating the spike in meteorite impacts observed in ...

Scientists suggest the salt deposits could house ancient bacteria from an era when Mars may have had an environment conducive ...

“Beautiful, beautiful. Magnificent desolation,” astronaut Buzz Aldrin famously said when he first stepped onto the Moon’s ...