NASA's beleaguered Mars Sample Return program currently faces extreme costs of up to $11 billion and a timeline that could ...

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson left a final decision on a new mission architecture to the next NASA administrator working ...

NASA proposes a quicker, cost-effective plan to bring Mars samples to Earth by 2030, reducing the mission cost from $11 ...

After the space agency punts a decision on the mission’s profile to 2026, Rocket Lab unveils its own Mars Sample Return plan.

JPL believes the Chopper could be the ideal way to get powerful scientific instruments into areas rovers would be unable to access. Ingenuity was tethered to Perseverance for communication, but the ...

The City of La Cañada Flintridge celebrated the Jet Propulsion Propulsion Laboratory and Mars exploration with its 2025 float ...

parachutes and backshells from rover missions Curiosity and Perseverance. The latter includes what is now a grounded drone with a busted propeller. One 2022 estimate from Space.com puts the ...

NASA has revealed the Mars Chopper, an advanced aerial vehicle designed to take Mars exploration to new heights. This ...

The drone was designed only as a technology ... Ingenuity rode to Mars attached to the underside of the Perseverance rover, aiming to complete just five flights. It ended up making 72 flights ...

Space agency says it needs one more year to decide whether its own hardware or a contractor’s will return Martian samples to ...