Orbital dynamics show that President Trump’s pledge to land astronauts on Mars couldn’t happen until 2029 at the earliest.

NASA is developing a groundbreaking spacecraft concept designed to revolutionize Mars travel. The ambitious plan involves assembling a football-field-sized spacecraft in orbit using advanced robotics.

To comply, NASA has sought to sanitize Mars rovers at a threshold of no more than 300,000 bacterial spores on any surface.

NASA is working on an exciting mission to send humans to Mars in the next few decades. To make this happen, the agency is ...

For nearly half a century, NASA has been talking an awfully good game about its much-heralded Mars Sample Return (MSR) project. As long ago as 1978, the space agency requested funding to develop a ...

The Mars Sample Return mission has been ranked as the highest priority by planetary scientists, who hope to find signs of ...

The car-sized Curiosity rover has spotted evidence of once quite hospitable environs on Mars.

Experts told Newsweek about the difficulties of reaching Mars as the United States faces complex challenges in space policy.

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

NASA wants to return Mars samples to Earth, but budget problems and technical woes have the mission caught between a rock and the Red Planet. There appears to be an unofficial robotic space race ...

Did you know that NASA conducts ground-breaking research in space on materials like metals, foams, and crystals? This ...

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 ...