When Spirit dropped through the thin Martian air and bounced to a stop inside Gusev Crater, it did more than survive a ...

NASA is quietly rewriting the script for human exploration of the Red Planet, turning robots from remote-controlled tools ...

Intuitive Machines is looking to help reshape the Mars Sample Return mission architecture with its own technology, based on architecture it has been developing for the moon, executives told investors ...

The Perseverance rover, currently exploring Mars, isn't just performing scientific analyses and collecting samples. It also carries a small machine on board that could change the future of Mars ...

Scientists are turning to machine learning to help with off-world sample analysis. "This machine learning algorithm can help us by quickly filtering the data and pointing out which data are likely to ...

An Indian spacecraft today was the first from the country to slide into orbit around Mars. The Indian Space Research Organization’s Mars Orbiter Mission, or MOM, reached Mars, fired its engines and ...

Unlocking the mysteries of the Red Planet, Intuitive Machines plans to aid NASA in the ambitious endeavor of returning samples from Mars. During a quarterly earnings call on Tuesday, executives at ...

Mars was struck by an asteroid between five and ten million years ago. It produced a huge crater and launched a fresh meteorite made of ancient Martian crust into space, which finally plummeted into ...

Forward-looking: Oxygen will be an essential element of any crewed Mars mission. Producing it on the red planet could be far more efficient than shipping it from Earth, and recent NASA experiments ...