A complex project aimed at retrieving rock and dirt samples from Mars has long been a top priority for NASA, with proponents arguing the mission could answer the age-old question of whether life once ...
However, the most interesting equipment to be deployed in the future has to be the robodog. Called the Legged Autonomous ...
A rock on Mars spilled a surprising yellow treasure after Curiosity accidentally cracked through its unremarkable exterior.
Right now one of the most advanced planetary explorers ever built is scouring the surface of Mars. Supported by a team of ...
Curiosity was built by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is managed by Caltech in Pasadena, California. JPL leads the mission on behalf of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The ...
Mary Roeloffs is a Forbes breaking news reporter covering pop culture. NASA has cited federal budget concerns as the reason for pumping the brakes on its Mars Sample Return mission meant to bring ...
It's been a long time coming, but Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin space company finally entered the select group of organizations that have contributed, to some degree, to a Mars mission. That's after the ...
NASA Mars Odyssey orbiter has been rotated to capture imagery of the Red Planet that would be similar to what an astronaut ...
Missions carrying humans to Mars will require on-site resources, and a project led by Planetary Science Institute (PSI) scientists Nathaniel Putzig and Gareth Morgan is mapping the availability of ...
Four volunteers have emerged from NASA's simulated Mars environment after more than a year spent on a mission that never actually departed Earth. The volunteer crew members spent more than 12 months ...
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NASA's Perseverance rover just rolled past a big milestone on the Red Planet. The car-sized Perseverance has now been exploring its exotic environs for 1,000 Mars days, or sols. (One sol is slightly ...