China’s Tianwen-3 Mars sample return mission could bring Red Planet rocks back to Earth as early as 2031—years ahead of ...

NASA's Perseverance rover is the latest marvel in Mars exploration, and it's not alone on its mission. Along for the ride is ...

China is positioning itself to take the lead in one of the most coveted goals in planetary science—returning samples from ...

Perseverance cracked open a tricky Mars rock to find water-related minerals, then zoomed across the landscape to make its ...

In 2025, space exploration enters a new era with missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond, led by NASA, ISRO, ESA, JAXA, and ...

If the Inspiration Mars mission does launch in 2021, it may help scientists put human boots on Martian dirt by the 2030s, Carberry said. Follow Miriam Kramer @mirikramer and Google+.

Of course, launching a mission to Mars in 2024 is ambitious, especially for Relativity Space, which has yet even to test putting its rocket in orbit. It isn’t completely undoable, ...

The first samples from Mars, collected by the Perseverance rover, will be returned to Earth in 2033. The Mars Sample Return missions now also include two helicopters similar to Ingenuity.

On July 14th, the United Arab Emirates is set to launch its first interplanetary mission: a spacecraft named Hope that will journey to Mars to study the planet’s atmosphere and weather. The ...

Mars has received considerable attention in the past few decades, thanks to the many robotic missions exploring it to learn more about its past. NASA and China plan to send astronauts/taikonauts ...

NASA Odyssey orbiter snapped a first-ever image of a Mars volcano peeking above some clouds before dawn. It’s twice as tall as Earth’s largest volcano ...

The astronauts selected for the first human mission to Mars will need to have more than “the right stuff.” People on this yearslong mission will need to possess an eagerness for doing the ...