The European Space Agency (ESA) wants to develop key technologies for a Mars surface lander by the mid-2030s.
A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get ...
NASA recently deemed this situation unacceptable. In April 2024, agency chief Bill Nelson announced that an overhaul of the ...
An exploding budget and an unraveling schedule spell disappointment for NASA's mission to learn more about Mars's history.
On this date, Jan. 18, 2004, the European Space Agency’s Mars Express finalized mapping of the Red Planet’s south pole. The ...
The company has outlined its proposed architecture to return martian rock and dust samples to Earth for research.
Previously, the Mars Sample Return mission had been estimated to cost around 11 billion dollars and would not return a sample ...
Thousands of mounds and hills in Mars' barren northern plains are full of clay minerals, providing evidence that the rocks ...
The proposals present alternatives to the original Mars Sample Return program. Designed by NASA and the European Space Agency, the initial plan was deemed unwieldy after an independent review ...
As the Artemis campaign leads humanity to the moon and eventually Mars, NASA is refining its state-of-the-art navigation and ...
In a book written by Michael Byers and Aaron Boley titled Who Owns Outer Space, the authors (Canada Research Chairs at the University of British Columbia) brilliantly put forth the challenges that ...