We have long been inspired by the idea that life could reside on Mars – human or otherwise. But fiction is getting closer to ...

Beans are forbidden in Texas chili, but apparently not on the Martian surface. NASA recently released an overhead view of what appears to be massive kidney beans found on Mars' northern hemisphere. In ...

An exploding budget and an unraveling schedule spell disappointment for NASA's mission to learn more about Mars's history.

NASA has arrived at two ways of returning samples collected on Mars to Earth. Now, the agency will test the options to see if ...

NASA's mission to return samples from Mars and potentially discover the first signs of alien life has a new timeline. The ...

Researchers at NASA Langley are developing a next-gen system called MARVL (Modular Assembled Radiators for Nuclear Electric ...

NASA sees two paths for saving its beleaguered plan to retrieve materials from the Red Planet but won’t choose between them ...

NASA announced Tuesday that it is exploring two options to move forward with its mission to return samples from Mars at a ...

NASA hopes a revised plan will get Mars samples back to Earth faster and cost less than the agency's original plan.

NASA will explore two different strategies for fetching Mars rocks collected by the Perseverance rover, and there's a chance ...

NASA has announced two new approaches to the Mars sample return mission that could save billions of dollars and at least a year in the timeline.

The Perseverance rover has been collecting Martian rock samples since 2021, but NASA is still figuring out how to bring them ...