The rover's 26th sample, known as "Silver Mountain," has textures "unlike anything we've seen before," NASA says.

As part of that program, Musk has previously said he plans to send an uncrewed Starships to Mars as early as 2026 and crewed ...

NASA's beleaguered Mars Sample Return program currently faces extreme costs of up to $11 billion and a timeline that could reach 2040. The year 2025 isn't even a week old and NASA is already ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has collected a sample from Mars that has textures “unlike anything we’ve ever seen before.” Known ...

Continuing the Artemis program and using its planned lunar space station as a staging post would be a more energy efficient ...

Should it continue the Artemis program and establish a lunar base, or shift its focus directly to Mars? While using the Moon ...

The Artemis program has been Nasa’s best chance to get “boots on the Moon” again. But with the new US administration taking ...

Trump’s pledge to go to Mars without mentioning the moon has caused some head-scratching and even consternation in the media.

However, NASA isn't sure how to get these samples back to Earth for analysis. The original Mars Sample Return Program called for collecting the Perseverance samples by 2033, but delays and ...

Illustration of the Soviet Mars Program’s Mars 3 space probe; (H) NASA’s Phoenix lander with DVD in foreground.

This one-hour program, Is There Life on Mars?, is divided into six chapters. Choose any chapter below and select QuickTime or Windows Media Player to begin viewing the video. If you experience ...

Mars, and beyond. By moving into orbit with its Commercial Crew Program and partnering with private companies to reach the lunar surface, NASA hopes to change the economics of spaceflight by ...