Five decades later, Nasa’s Viking 1 mission remains among the greatest landmarks in planetary science, a model for every ...

When astronauts set foot on Mars, it will be one of humanity’s greatest milestones. These first steps will be the result of decades of research, engineering, and imagination coming together, marking ...

WASHINGTON — The search for past or present life should be the top science objective of future human missions to Mars, a new National Academies report concludes. The report, A Science Strategy for the ...

As humanity prepares to take its first steps on Mars, a comprehensive report released by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and steered by scientists at Penn State lays out ...

NASA has chosen 41 commercial technology projects that could solve critical challenges for future missions to the Moon and ...

A swarm of spherical rovers, blown by the wind like tumbleweeds, could enable large-scale and low-cost exploration of the Martian surface, according to results presented at the Joint Meeting of the ...

Four volunteers are set to leave a simulated Mars habitat that they've been living in since June of last year. NASA is concluding a yearlong Mars mission experiment — and four volunteers are set to ...

The space agency has put out a call for its Moon & Mars Exploration Analog, which recreates the challenges of a long-duration space mission ...

When Spirit dropped through the thin Martian air and bounced to a stop inside Gusev Crater, it did more than survive a high‑risk landing. It opened a new era in which rovers became the primary way ...