Congressional supporters of the Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission have buckled to pressure from the Trump administration to ...

For astronaut safety and to bolster success of the human exploration to come later, NASA needs an end-to-end demonstration of ...

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is continuing its mission to collect samples despite uncertainty about when or if those ...

NASA's Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission, designed to bring drilled rock samples from the Martian surface back to Earth to ...

In a complicated maneuver, NASA and ESA wanted to bring soil samples from Mars to Earth. But that won't happen, the USA is ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. To the editor: As a member of the Mars Sample Return team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, I think your ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge. About 550 people are being laid off as part of an ongoing reorganization. (Mario Tama / Getty Images) Designing the system that would bring a ...

Right now one of the most advanced planetary explorers ever built is scouring the surface of Mars. Supported by a team of hundreds of scientists back on Earth, the Perseverance rover has traveled ...

A test model of the Perseverance rover, designed to explore the surface of Mars, sits in a garage at NASA’s Jet Propulsion ...

It’s an age-old question. Was there ever life on Mars? Earth just got closer to an answer — maybe. A rover built and managed in Southern California, with a mission to understand the Red Planet has ...

In a quiet corner of an ancient riverbed on Mars, a speckled rock has pushed the search for extraterrestrial life into its ...