A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get ...

The space agency will provide a broadcast update on the marquee mission that is intended to recover samples of Martian rock ...

In 2021, the same design was used to land Perseverance, and the team was actually able to capture video of the daring descent ...

In late December 2024 and early January 2025, a photo circulated on multiple social media sites claiming to show an ...

The year 2025 isn't even a week old and NASA is already gearing up for its first big announcement, this one about the agency's ambitious, yet beleaguered, Mars sample return mission. Today (Jan. 7 ...

An Oct. 24 Facebook video (direct link, archive link) shows purported images from a NASA Mars rover mission. The video appears to scan the landscape before zooming in on the front of the rover.

NASA's mission is to return rock, soil and others samples to Earth for study. NASA announced Tuesday that it's exploring two landing options to move forward with its mission to retrieve ...

It will also test new robotic exploration tools for use on future missions to the moon or Mars. Japan's M2/Resilience mission, scheduled for January 2025, will launch a lander and micro-rover to ...

It involved a motivational letter, a resume and a video submission ... and broadcasting rights — so that's two-thirds of a Mars mission," Lansdorp told Engadget in a 2014 interview.

Instead, the mission could again use the sky crane system, which had successfully deployed the Curiosity and Perseverance robotic rovers that are currently exploring Mars. The sky crane lowers the ...