NASA wants to Mars samples to Earth, but budget problems and technical woes have the mission caught between a rock and the ...

Ingenuity, NASA’s Mars Helicopter, surpassed expectations as the first aircraft to operate on another planet. Despite being designed for five test flights over 30 days, it completed 72 flights across ...

On this date in 1999, the Mars Polar Lander approached the Martian surface to high of speed for NASA engineers to correct from Earth.

Learn how NASA’s satellite fleet helps provide weather Information for the missions on the surface of Mars. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech ...

It comes after NASA announced that the sun has reached "solar maximum," which could continue for the next year and keep the ...

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 ...

NASA's ambitious Mars sample-return mission faces budget and timeline challenges, but private space company Rocket Lab may have a solution to save the day.

The best time to witness the celestial event will be just after sunset starting Jan. 10. A meteor shower will also be visible ...

Two coronal mass ejections (CMEs) struck Earth’s magnetic field on New Year’s Eve, bringing out the displays of light in the ...

Europa Clipper, which launched in October 2024, will get an energy boost around March 2025 when it flies by Mars, one of our ...

January 2025 offers a series of spectacular celestial events for stargazers. The month kicks off with the Quadrantid meteor ...

This month, four bright planets greet you in the early evening. Venus and Saturn cozy up on the 17th and 18th, while Mars is at its brightest in the past two years. The Moon occults Mars for those in ...