Lockheed Martin has unveiled a new proposal to take over NASA's beleaguered Mars Sample Return mission for less than half the ...

Dark “slope streaks,” likely resulting from dust avalanches, stretch across an area of Mars called Acheron Fossae in this ...

Aerospace giant Lockheed Martin offered to "execute Mars Sample Return (MSR) as a firm-fixed price solution for under $3 ...

Our two-person team loaded the car with a GPS, a drone, notebooks, sample bags, a trowel and a flat spatula lovingly called a ...

In both cases, the sample collection spacecraft would rely on a radioisotope thermoelectric generator, or RTG, instead of solar panels, making the craft immune to sunlight-blocking dust storms ...

NASA has arrived at two ways of returning samples collected on Mars to Earth. Now, the agency will test the options to see if the cache can make it back in the 2030s.

The Mars Sample Return program is a joint NASA and European Space Agency (ESA) ... but actually that provides power and heat through the dust storm season on Mars,” said Fox.

The color red and the planet Mars go together like Earth and its oceans or Saturn and its rings.However, our understanding of how the Red Planet got its signature hue might be wrong. A new ...

NASA has been struggling with its Mars Sample Return mission, which has recently come under scrutiny for cost overruns and scheduling delays. In September 2023, an independent review board (IRB ...

With its iconic rusty hue, Mars has long been called the red planet. Now, scientists may have discovered the potential source of that distinctive coloring, overturning a popular theory in the process.