An independent review team is delivering a final report to NASA leadership to determine if the agency's Mars Sample Return ...

Researchers believe dark rocks at the site of a future Mars rover landing mission may be left over from ancient volcanic ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has spotted an oddball rock in an ancient river channel on Mars. Deputy project scientist Katie Stack Morgan explains. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS ...

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and Nicky Fox, associate administrator, Science Mission Directorate, will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EST, Tuesday, Jan. 7, to provide an update on the status ...

Justin Holcomb and colleagues argue that Mars' remnants, like crashed landers and rover tracks, are valuable heritage, not ...

The year 2025 promises to be packed with space exploration, including robotic expeditions to the moon, a new observatory and ...

In 2024, space exploration dazzled the world. NASA’s Europa Clipper began its journey to study Jupiter’s moon Europa.

NASA’s Lucy mission will continue its journey to explore the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, which share Jupiter’s orbit around the Sun, in 2025. One key event for Lucy is its flyby of the inner main-belt ...

On this date in 1999, the Mars Polar Lander approached the Martian surface to high of speed for NASA engineers to correct ...

For example, he has rarely criticized NASA or its overall goal to return humans to the Moon through the Artemis Program. Rather, Musk, who has long preferred Mars as a destination for humans, has more ...

Cracking the chicken-and-egg problem of utilizing resources in space has been a difficult challenge for over half a century.

It is clear that as demand for minerals surges due to green energy transition, asteroids could offer a virtually limitless ...