On 13 November, the Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamic Explorers (EscaPADE) mission launched to space on the New ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover continues collecting and studying Mars samples as uncertainty grows over the future of the Mars Sample Return program.

NASA is in communication with its Mars explorers again following last month’s solar conjunction. On Nov. 11, Earth’s orbit and that of Mars aligned so that they were on opposite sides of the Sun, ...

On the 100th anniversary of the first airborne flight, the Association of Mars Explorers is calling upon the President to set an ambitious goal of landing humans on Mars and establishing a permanent ...

NASA is backing a new generation of nuclear rockets that could compress the months-long journey to Mars into a sprint ...

NASA is in an awkward spot. Thanks to Mars’ orbit and that of our own planet, the Sun is currently blocking all communication between Earth and the agency’s many active Mars missions. As a result, ...

Bruce Jakosky is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder and University of Washington, has almost 50 ...

A newly identified region on Mars may hold the key to future human landings. Researchers found evidence of water ice less ...

The world’s most advanced deep-space capsule, the Orion, is set to speed astronauts around the Moon, a trek that could ...

NASA’s robotic exploration team has proven they have the right stuff Matthew Shindell Images sent back to Earth during the past two decades have revealed Mars to be a vibrant alien world—with more ...

A toaster-sized device called MOXIE is tucked inside NASA's Perseverance rover, which landed on Mars in 2021. MOXIE reliably produces 6 grams of oxygen per hour under various conditions on Mars. A ...