A look back at a few Mars 2020 mission highlights of 2024   Perseverance’s past year operating on the surface of Mars was ...

NASA officials had an earlier plan to bring the Mars samples back to Earth, but the program slammed into a budgetary ...

To maximize chances of successfully bringing the first Martian rock and sediment samples to Earth for the benefit of humanity ...

With 10 instruments and technology tests, Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander is part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload ...

JPL's spy crane tech or private vendor to get $5-7 billion contract, before hitching lift back to Earth with ESA NASA says it ...

NASA will analyze and explore two different landing options for its Mars Sample Return program, though it will take almost two years to do so and is expected to announce its decision in late 2026. The ...

Anyone hoping for a clear path forward this year for NASA's imperiled Mars Sample Return mission will have to wait a little ...

The Mars Sample Return effort was billions of dollars over budget and not expected to return to Earth with its samples until 2040.

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 has plans to return humans to the moon with the Artemis mission—but Elon Musk’s preference for Mars could have influence ...

See the US achieve many firsts in space exploration this year from SpaceX's wild rocket catch to Intuitive Machines' historic ...

NASA's Ingenuity was officially grounded after its last flight on Jan. 18, this year. But the little Mars-copter-that-could lasted well beyond its mission parameters and the expectations of its ...