US Congress has rejected plans to slash NASA's science budget, restoring most funding with one notable exception: Mars Sample Return remains cancelled.

"There are incredibly tantalizing samples in the Perseverance rover's cache that could revolutionize our understanding of ...

The push comes as Beijing seeks to build on major state-led achievements, including the construction of its own space station and a successful Mars rover mission, while addressing weaknesses in launch ...

Since then the country has put a rover on Mars and built one of the two operational space stations orbiting Earth. Now its ...

Mars has an active, electrically charged surface where dust storms and spinning dust devils regularly move and reshape the ...

China’s first Mars rover, Zhurong, has provided groundbreaking insights into the history of water on Mars, showing that ...

If scientists are able to inspect it in person, and they find that Mars was indeed once alive with microbes, we would know ...

Mars, often depicted as a barren red planet, is far from lifeless. With its thin atmosphere and dusty surface, it is an ...

U.S. plans to return Mars samples face delays as China advances its own mission. Scientists and policymakers debate costs, timelines, and the role of sample return in future Mars exploration ...

For astronaut safety and to bolster success of the human exploration to come later, NASA needs an end-to-end demonstration of ...

BEIJING -- By studying the detection data of China's first Mars rover, Zhurong, Chinese geologists have found that the ...

Like most other rovers sent to alien worlds, the Perseverance was built to last. Although it was technically designed to conduct its core mission – finding signs of ancient life – in one Martian year ...