A Congressional bill restores funding for most NASA space science missions, but there is no money for returning samples ...

It looks like NASA's Mars Sample Return mission has come to a bureaucratic end. The mission was to be the crowning ...

NASA planetary science division director Louise Prockter conceded that the agency is "very unlikely" to recover its MAVEN ...

Exploration advocates are pushing back against the planned cancellation of NASA's Mars sample return project, saying it could ...

NASA Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate, Dr. Nicola Fox explains an intriguing rock that the ...

Mars, often depicted as a barren red planet, is far from lifeless. With its thin atmosphere and dusty surface, it is an ...

A study by scientists at Penn State and NASA shows that intact biomolecules from dormant microbes break down much more slowly ...

Mars is half the size of Earth and has only a tenth of its mass, but a new study shows that even such a "lightweight" planet ...

The research has implications for NASA’s goals to build a base on the moon and eventually conduct crewed missions to Mars.

For more than 25 years, humans have lived and worked continuously aboard the International Space Station, conducting research ...

Researchers discovered Mars subtly affects Earth’s orbit and axial tilt. These small changes help trigger ice ages and ...

NASA’s Mars Sample Return program faces opposition from planetary scientists following proposed cancellation, with concerns raised over Perseverance samples, future Mars missions, and international ...