In 1976, NASA’s Viking landers scooped up Martian soil and fed it radioactive nutrients to see whether anything inside would ...

The rover will collect the samples from a region of Mars called Oxia Planum, a clay-rich, ancient plain on Mars, located just ...

For future NASA missions to Mars, this new helicopter vehicle will be key to surveying the planet's surface for all sorts of ...

Landing humans on Mars could teach us whether life ever existed beyond Earth, how planets change over time, and how humans can live on other worlds. By studying Mars up close, astronauts could answer ...

We've been hearing from NASA about its plans for a moon base to keep a permanent human presence there. It could end up ...

As humanity prepares for future lunar missions and landing on Mars, we need to develop sustainable and mobile medical systems ...

Mars enthusiasts underwhelmed by some of the first dusty images of the planet to be beamed back to Earth by the Curiosity rover that landed there on Sunday were reassured by NASA Tuesday that more ...

Growing up in Questa, Jared Martinez did not imagine he would one day help lead engineering work on a spacecraft designed to carry astronauts hundreds of thousands of miles from Earth. “I had fun ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover had an unexpectedly stubborn Mars souvenir after drilling into a rock nicknamed “Atacama” — the entire chunk ripped loose from the ground and stayed stuck to the rover’s drill.

Problems in space can be complex and dangerous. But NASA's Curiosity Mars rover spent the end of April embroiled in a much simpler problem: It got stuck in a rock. Curiosity's woes began on April 25 ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover continues exploring Mars more than 13 years after landing on the red planet — but recently had an unusual incident that left a rock lodged on its drill for nearly a week.