For decades, Sandia National Laboratories' National Solar Thermal Test Facility has harnessed the power of the sun to expose aerospace materials to intense heat, replicating the harsh conditions of ...

Earth microbes trying to make it to Mars must survive sterilization in NASA's clean rooms, harsh cosmic rays during months of space travel, and the Red Planet's unforgiving surface environment. But ...

The precious Mars samples collected by the Perseverance rover could be coming to Earth sooner rather than later. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) has successfully completed a set of rigorous actuator tests, which agency managers hope is a sign that the problem-plagued rover mission has finally turned a ...

LOS ANGELES — NASA's flagship mission to land a nuclear-powered, next-generation rover on Mars is facing development problems and ballooning costs that could threaten its scheduled launch next year.

Each spring, when the winter frost departs, the bulbous bodies and sprawling legs of “spiders” appear across Mars’ southern hemisphere. They’re known as araneiform terrain, and scientists at NASA’s ...

Orbiting Mars is the next goal for Rocket Lab USA’s deep dive into outer space. Two twin satellites made by the Long Beach-based company were sent to Kennedy Space Center in Florida for preparations ...

Rocket Lab built a pair of small Mars science orbiters, which are awaiting a new launch date. The company is now hoping to land on Mars as well to retrieve rock and soil samples for NASA and ESA.

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory uses photos from the UA’s HiRISE camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to show how NASA’s Mars Science Lab will land in August 2012. Nancy Atkinson of Universe ...

Rocket Lab Corporation (NASDAQ:RKLB) announced that it delivered two Explorer-class spacecraft to Kennedy Space Flight Center for NASA's Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers mission, ...

One of the great unsolved problems in modern planetary science is written on the surface of Mars. Mars has canyons that were carved by rivers, so it was once warm enough for liquid water. How—and ...

LOS ANGELES - NASA's flagship mission to land a nuclear-powered, next-generation rover on Mars is facing development problems and ballooning costs that could threaten its scheduled launch next year.