NASA wants to send an ambitious fleet of helicopters to soar through Martian skies—but scientists fear the endeavor could ...

A California-based company will design, build and launch a spacecraft for NASA's Aeolus mission to orbit around Mars, where ...

A growing group of researchers is taking a serious look at one of humanity’s most ambitious ideas: transforming Mars into a ...

This partnership marks the latest foray into space exploration for Relativity Space, which aims to build cheap, reusable ...

NASA announced the partnership on June 17, 2026. Chief Jared Isaacman called it a "force multiplier" during an event at ...

Thirteen years ago last August, I was camped out in NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory press room in Pasadena, Calif. , waiting ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has returned one of its most striking views yet from the Martian surface, capturing a 360-degree ...

Viking 1 kicked off the search for Martian life 50 years ago. Now NASA’s shifting priorities are putting the quest in limbo.

Mars may have hosted life billions of years ago, a possibility that has long intrigued scientists. Now, new evidence suggests the planet was habitable for even longer than previously thought, due to ...

Over more than a decade at Mars, the orbiter revealed how the solar wind strips away the planet’s atmosphere — and why the ...

After more than 70 successful flights, a broken rotor ended the remarkable and groundbreaking Ingenuity helicopter mission on Mars. Now, NASA is considering how a larger, more capable helicopter could ...

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 ...