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 ...

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 ...

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

As it flew by Mars, the spacecraft's onboard camera snapped 22 pictures of the planet's surface, sending them back home to ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 Sample Return mission has long been a point of contention for the agency, but now someone might have a plan to ...