A recent press briefing led by NASA’s interim administrator Sean Duffyhighlighted the excitement around a new rock formation ...

Mars is an inhospitable desert planet. Billions of years ago, things were different. In Jezero Crater, for example, fed by a ...

One of the best parts about sending rovers like Perseverance to other planets, is sometimes they send back some absolutely ...

NASA's Perseverance rover may have uncovered hints of ancient Martian life, but China's Tianwen 3 mission could be the first to deliver samples back to Earth.

Frozen in time, ancient microbes or their remains could be found in Martian ice deposits during future missions to the red ...

A pair of Mars-bound satellites are back to Kennedy Space Center a year after NASA bowed out of its chance to be the debut launch of Blue Origin’s New Glenn.

A NASA study shows bacteria fragments can survive 50 million years in Martian ice. Pure ice, not rock, could hold clues to ...

To be clear, the U.S. is still in a better position than any nation on Earth to lead humanity to the ‘Golden Age’ of space exploration. Let’s not let that golden age turn instead into fool’s gold.

HOUSTON — NASA has introduced its new class of astronaut candidates, some of whom may be among the first people to set foot on Mars. The cadre — the 24th astronaut class in NASA's history, and the ...

NASA will announce the first class of astronauts in four years who could one day be eligible for missions to the moon and Mars.

NASA on Monday introduced the 10 people who will join the agency’s astronaut corps as it races to return humans to the moon.

Starship, which has launched 11 times in South Texas, was NASA's vehicle of choice to land astronauts on the moon. Now the ...