The aerospace giant says it can revive Mars Sample Return with a leaner, lower-cost approach drawing on proven designs.

After its voyage past Mars, Mariner 4 maintained intermittent communication with JPL and returned data about the interplanetary environment for two more years. But by the end of 1967, the spacecraft ...

The more scientists study the Red Planet, the more they find unusual objects and patterns scattered across Mars' surface. As ...

A 54-pound meteorite from Mars is expected to fetch up to $4 million when it goes up for auction later this month at ...

NASA’s Mars Sample Return Mission may cost up to $11 billion, risking c Lockheed Martin proposes a reduced-cost plan using InSight lander techn Rocket Lab also offered a budget-friendly MSR proposal i ...

With Trump’s new budget cutting NASA science programs, the Mars Sample Return mission could be replaced by a private-sector ...

Mariner 4, built by JPL in Pasadena, took the images on July 14, 1965. One of the mission's leaders reflects on decades of ...

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has learned to pull off daring 120-degree rolls that give its SHARAD radar ...

A giant rock from Mars and a Jurassic-era dinosaur skeleton are set to go under the hammer at Sotheby’s this week.

Sixty years ago today, NASA’s Mariner 4 spacecraft took the first up-close images of Mars, changing humanity's understanding ...

See Rocket Lab's "proposed mission architecture" for a Mars sample return mission in this animation. Credit: Rocket Lab ...

A chunk of the Martian surface that made unlikely voyage to Earth will be available to highest bidder at Sotheby's auction in ...