The European Space Agency (ESA) wants to develop key technologies for a Mars surface lander by the mid-2030s.

The proposals present alternatives to the original Mars Sample Return program. Designed by NASA and the European Space Agency, the initial plan was deemed unwieldy after an independent review board ...

A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get ...

Sending humans to Mars is one of the most ambitious goals in the history of space exploration. Unlike missions to the Moon, ...

NASA recently deemed this situation unacceptable. In April 2024, agency chief Bill Nelson announced that an overhaul of the ...

The company has outlined its proposed architecture to return martian rock and dust samples to Earth for research.

Thousands of mounds and hills in Mars' barren northern plains are full of clay minerals, providing evidence that the rocks ...

On this date, Jan. 18, 2004, the European Space Agency’s Mars Express finalized mapping of the Red Planet’s south pole. The ...

An exploding budget and an unraveling schedule spell disappointment for NASA's mission to learn more about Mars's history.

Previously, the Mars Sample Return mission had been estimated to cost around 11 billion dollars and would not return a sample until the 2040's, noted Nelson, who said a re-evaluation of the mission ...

First, a new robotic spacecraft would land near Perseverance, which would then hand over about 30 of its rock samples to launch into orbit around Mars. Yet another spacecraft, from the European Space ...

American space agency NASA announced it is looking at two ways of landing hardware on Mars for the Sample Return mission, ...