NASA plans a 2028 nuclear-powered Mars mission using SR-1 Freedom and Skyfall helicopters, aiming to transform deep-space ...

The White House says NASA's Mars Sample Return mission is a waste of money, but experts say the mission could help it achieve ...

NASA plans to launch a nuclear-powered spacecraft toward Mars in 2028, carrying three helicopters designed to retrieve rock ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Right now one of the most advanced planetary explorers ever built is scouring the surface of Mars. Supported by a team of hundreds ...

NASA’s interim administrator, Sean Duffy, was fired up on Wednesday when he joined a teleconference to talk about new scientific findings that concerned the potential for life to have once existed on ...

Update: A minibus spending package passed by the House of Representatives on January 8, 2026, effectively cancels the Mars Sample Return program by eliminating almost all funding for future missions.

In what appears to be a jab at NASA, Rocket Lab this week unveiled its own plan to return rock and dust samples the space agency has been collecting from Mars’ Jezero Crater since 2021. NASA earlier ...

Perseverance took a selfie after filling a sample tube with a rock core from the arrowhead-shaped rock nicknamed Cheyava Falls. The small, dark hole in the rock is where the core sample was drilled.

NASA's Perseverance rover may have uncovered hints of ancient Martian life, but China's Tianwen 3 mission could be the first to deliver samples back to Earth. When you purchase through links on our ...

A crescent of the northern hemisphere of Mars taken by Tianwen-1's medium-resolution camera in March 2021. Credit: CNSA/PEC ESPOO, Finland — China’s Tianwen-3 Mars sample return mission is entering ...

When the Perseverance rover arrived on Mars nearly five years ago, NASA officials thought the next American lander to take aim on the red planet would be taking shape by now. At the time, the leaders ...