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

It wasn’t, of course, anything of the sort—merely a crevice resulting from natural erosion—but in the wake of that image both of NASA’s rovers, Curiosity and Perseverance, have been ...

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

In fact, the damage observed on Curiosity helped the agency refine the wheel design for its Perseverance rover, which landed on Mars in 2021. The new rover has larger diameter wheels and a closer ...

So fixated, in fact, that the space agency has spent more than $5 billion getting two immensely complicated robotic ...

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’s Curiosity rover is skygazing and photographing lovely examples of noctilucent clouds on Mars. The wispy formations ...

NASA unveils a groundbreaking approach to bring Martian rock samples back to Earth by 2026, introducing competition between ...

NASA's mission to return samples from Mars and potentially discover the first signs of alien life has a new timeline. The samples may arrive sooner.