NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured images of kidney bean-shaped frozen sand dunes in Mars' northern hemisphere, ...

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

A new preprint study looking at data from NASA's Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat ...

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

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

NASA unveils a groundbreaking approach to bring Martian rock samples back to Earth by 2026, introducing competition between ...

In April, after an independent review found “near zero probability” of Mars Sample Return making its proposed 2028 launch ...

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

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

NASA recently deemed this situation unacceptable. In April 2024, agency chief Bill Nelson announced that an overhaul of the ...