Mars is generally regarded as a place that can't support life, but new research sheds light on how the Red Planet evolved ...

Rocket Lab lands the NASA contract to determine an affordable and reliable way to bring back rock samples from Mars to Earth.

NASA JPL's Europa Clipper spacecraft, the largest planetary probe ever built, will launch as early as Friday to explore ...

Scientists have sought life on Mars since the first spacecraft touched down on its surface in 1976. Mounting evidence from robotic explorers, especially from Curiosity and its twin Perseverance, has ...

Monday's test checked an important box for Blue Origin. Launch startups in China and Europe are borrowing ideas and rhetoric from SpaceX. The large rocket will attempt to land on its debut flight. In ...

In response to NASA's plea for help bringing the cost and complexity of its Mars sample-return program, Rocket Lab has won a ...

NASA has awarded a contract to Rocket Lab to study alternative concepts for Mars Sample Return (MSR), joining several other efforts to improve the cost and schedule of the program.

Rocket Lab ( RKLB -2.27%) keeps raking in contracts. Yesterday, the company announced that NASA has hired it to propose a ...

Testy Subject Scientists have long proposed nuclear fission-fueled rockets to get to Mars fast — but one is warning that ...

As we concretise plans to build a colony on the Moon, real-time communication with that space real estate still eludes us, ...

NASA is in desperate need of an alternative plan for its Mars Sample Return, and is hoping the private industry can salvage ...