NASA's Viking 1 mission blazed a crucial trail with its Mars landing on July 20, 1976. Now, half a century later, that trail ...

This Viking 1 image is one of first images of a sunset as seen from the surface of Mars. It shows the Chryse Planitia region ...

In summer 2026, NASA will commemorate the 50th anniversary of one of the most consequential milestones in planetary ...

When NASA’s Psyche spacecraft flew by Mars for a gravity assist on May 15, 2026, it gave the mission team an opportunity to ...

Missouri S&T’s Mars Rover Design Team won the University Rover Challenge, an annual competition at the Mars Desert Research ...

Scientists are investigating how the unusual polygon-shaped ridges formed and whether nearby dark rocks are Martian debris or ...

Mars has a way of looking friendlier from a distance than it actually is. Red dust, pink skies, and rust colored rock give ...

Here's your chance to live like an astronaut as NASA seeks volunteers to live in a habitat for a year simulating future moon and Mars missions.

NASA has awarded four new lander contracts to test technology before sending astronauts back to the moon. The contracts were awarded to Astrobotic, Firefly Aerospace, and Intuitive Machines under the ...

As part of plans to establish a lunar base, the space agency may send to the moon a spare test version of the rover — as well as a soccer ball. By Kenneth Chang NASA has a spare Mars rover that it ...

NASA announced four new contracts for commercial lunar landers for the agency’s moon plans, but dropped news that it’s toying with the idea of sending to the moon a sister rover to the ones currently ...

An engineering development version of the NASA rovers currently operating on Mars takes a spin at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. (NASA via YouTube) NASA ...