His team was mere months from launching Europe’s first Mars rover — a goal they had been working toward for nearly two decades. But on that day, ESA suspended ties with Russia’s space agency over the ...

Solar flares have a cycle, reaching their peak every 11 years, and NASA explains that they are recorded on “a classification ...

We came in this morning with a completely new Martian vista to admire, and then we had to work together as a team to make a ...

Boeing is the first company to release details about how it would attempt a Mars Sample Return mission. Its study involves a ...

This coming Saturday, the public can visit Mars to experience the thrill of controlling a rover on the surface of Mars. The ...

After the spectacular success of the first-ever “Marscopter,” mission planners have soaring ambitions for follow-up flying ...

Trying to determine if Mars once had more Earth-like conditions in its ancient past is what scientists have been trying to ...

HOUSTON—The technical and cost challenges of a NASA-led Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission could be addressed with a single ...

NASA’s Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission has run aground, wrecked by a $10 billion price estimate, a 16 year timeline and ...

NASA recently asked the scientific community to help come up with innovative ideas for ways to carry out its Mars Sample ...

Astrobiology is the field of science that studies the origins, evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe.

The Curiosity Mars rover has detected intriguing chemical evidence, in the form of anomalous amounts of manganese oxide, ...