"Returning the scientifically selected samples that await us on Mars, as part of a balanced portfolio, will help to ensure ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has snapped its first images of web-like "boxwork" features on the surface of Mars. The zig-zagging ...

NASA images reveal shallow ice beneath Mars’s surface, offering a promising water source for future astronauts and clues to ...

Life outside the Earth is one of the biggest "what if" in history, but NASA is trying to put a end to the discussion - or add ...

UCF Professor Ramses Ramirez believes human exploration can greatly accelerate the search for life. "A human can react ...

China aims to launch the Tianwen-3 Mars mission by 2028, with sample return targeted for 2031, according to chief scientist ...

NASA’s clean-rooms are meant to be the surgical suites of spaceflight—over-pressurised, HEPA-filtered boxes where not even a stray eyelash should survive. Yet ...

Using high-resolution imagery from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Luzzi’s team observed surface patterns typically ...

China’s Tianwen-3 Mars sample return mission could bring Red Planet rocks back to Earth as early as 2031—years ahead of competing U.S.-European efforts ...

A Chinese team has detailed an innovative drone plan for acquiring Martian samples, incorporating measures to mitigate ...