The findings are the result of the ongoing studies performed by NASA’s Curiosity rover, which has been scouring the red planet since landing in 2012. The latest breakthrough came as scientists were ...

After the space agency canceled its VIPER rover, an empty space was available on a private spacecraft that will still head to ...

Option one would use the same "sky crane" landing system proven with NASA's Curiosity and Perseverance Mars rovers, a smaller sample collection spacecraft, a smaller rocket to boost the samples ...

Ancient ripples suggest a warmer, wetter past for the Red Planet that supported open water on its surface.

NASA announced Tuesday that it's exploring two landing options to move forward ... The method was previously used for the Perseverance and Curiosity missions. The second option would be to use ...

A perfectly square-shaped structure on Mars, 3 kilometers wide, spotted in NASA’s Mars Orbiter Camera images, has sparked ...

Scientists found a compelling reason why. The damaged right-middle wheel of NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity, as viewed on Sept. 22, 2024. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS Future extraterrestrial ...

A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get them back to Earth.

The more traditional alternative would use the same landing method that lowered NASA's Perseverance and Curiosity rovers onto the Martian surface — a rocket-steered platform known as a sky crane.

associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, explained, “We are exploring two new landing options. One is to leverage technology used for the Perseverance and Curiosity rover ...

After a series of delays, the cost ballooned to $11 billion and the samples wouldn't be landing on Earth until ... similar to the ones that helped lower NASA's Curiosity and Perseverance rovers ...

which is the same method that used a hovering rocket to lower NASA’s Perseverance and Curiosity rovers via cable onto the Martian surface. The second option would include a landing system ...