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

NASA Curiosity rover, which launched from Florida in 2011, captured panoramic image of Mars that resembles a sunset on Earth.

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

Congress largely rejected the massive NASA cuts proposed earlier in 2025 and approved a fiscal year 2026 budget that kept ...

Mars looks familiar from afar, but surviving there means creating a protective oasis in a hostile world. Instead of shipping ...

Small lakes on ancient Mars may have remained liquid for decades, even with average air temperatures well below freezing.

There’s a lot of energy right now around taking big leaps with deep-space missions, as sustained lunar activity and Mars exploration gain momentum. Commercial players are leading, but major leaps ...

Another view from Perseverance shows how windswept Mars' landscape truly is.

NASA lost communication with its MAVEN probe nearly a month ago, and efforts to re-establish a connection have been futile.

Thanks to Einstein’s relativity, time flows differently on Mars than on Earth. NIST scientists have now nailed down the ...

The potential for sending payloads and people to Mars is therefore becoming plausible in a way that it never has before. Mars ...

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