No longer taking the canceled VIPER rover mission. The Griffin lander will demonstrate ... to the International Space Station followed by a parachute-and-airbag-assisted ground landing in the desert ...

NASA’s Spirit Rover didn’t land like a normal spacecraft—it bounced! 🔴🎈 Find out why NASA used an inflatable landing system ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) wants to develop key technologies for a Mars surface lander by the mid-2030s.

The NASA Mars Sample Return Program plans to bring these samples to Earth (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS) The rover has journeyed across more than 20 miles, according to an interactive map that ...

Two new potential strategies for returning crucial samples from Mars to Earth by ... slow down and create a safe landing. For the deployment of the hefty car-size rover Curiosity, engineers ...

This will also prepare us to safely send the first human explorers to Mars." During formulation, NASA will proceed with exploring and evaluating two distinct means of landing the payload platform ...

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson left a final decision on a new mission architecture to the next NASA administrator working under the incoming Trump administration. President-elect Donald Trump ...

NASA leadership announced Jan. 7 that it would pursue studies of two architectures for its Mars Sample Return effort that would take samples currently being collected by the Perseverance rover and ...

To that end, NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars has already collected and cached a bevy of samples since it arrived on the planet in 2021. "The agency's Mars Sample Return Program has been a major ...