In a groundbreaking revelation, NASA’s rover discoveries may change everything we thought we knew about thehistory of Mars.

It's possible that Mars' moons were originally asteroids that were captured by the planet's gravitational pull. There's also ...

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

All told, the total cost of the Mars Sample Return mission is now about $10 billion. About the mission NASA and its international partners, including the European Space Agency, have wanted to ...

Mars geology Mars is an intriguing planet from a geological and atmospheric perspective. It formed with the rest of the solar system about 4.6 billion years ago.Around 3.8 billion years ago, the ...

Mars transit times using SpaceX Starship could be reduced to 90–104 days with optimized trajectories and current or near-term chemical propulsion, challenging the view that only nuclear ...

The Perseverance has been filling collecting samples on Mars, awaiting the day when they will be taken back to Earth. But, if NASA does not have proper funding, the samples might never make it to ...

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 ...

Key Background. The Mars Sample Return mission was identified by the 2023 Planetary Sciences Decadal Survey as NASA’s "highest scientific priority." ...

Close-up: Deimos with Mars in the background as taken by the Emirate Mars Mission on 10 March 2023 (courtesy: Emirates Mars Mission) The United Arab Emirates’ Mars probe has taken the first ...

Look: Mission accomplished! When UAE reached Mars four years ago. The UAE became the first Arab country and the fifth in the world to reach Mars, as Hope Probe slung into the Martian orbit on the ...

Credit: Emirates Mars Mission. ... “Mars was in the background — and that was just mind blowing, honestly,” says Al Matroushi, who is at the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre in Dubai, ...