Launch costs were high and minimizing mass sent to space was the main driver for mission design. To reduce mass, mission designs employed nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP), in-situ resource utilization ...

The Mars helicopter Ingenuity was tested on Earth in simulated Martian conditions to prove that flight was possible in the ...

An exciting discovery on Mars is being overshadowed by turmoil at NASA, with budget cuts threatening to destroy a scientific ...

Has NASA's Perseverance rover at long last found evidence that life did indeed once exist on Mars? Here's what we know.

A spacecraft slowly descends to the surface of Mars. Once arid and lifeless, the Red Planet is now lush and green. As a city comes into view, passengers see people strolling along busy streets, ...

NASA’s famous Mars rover Perseverance, which landed on the red planet back in 2021, has been quiet for a long time—but now ...

“This finding by Perseverance …is the closest we have ever come to discovering life on Mars,” said acting NASA administrator ...

NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity recently completed a pair of flights. See the first imagery from flight 33 (Sept. 24) and a ...

"The idea was for our payload to get us just up to the potential biosignature designation and have the rest of the story told ...

NASA’s Skyfall mission will drop six autonomous helicopters on Mars, using swarm tech to explore terrain, hunt resources, and ...

Scientists have sought to understand the nature of the red planet's interior for decades. Recently, the journal Science published a paper authored by researchers from California and the UK Space ...

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