NASA is quietly rewriting the script for human exploration of the Red Planet, turning robots from remote-controlled tools ...

Intuitive Machines is looking to help reshape the Mars Sample Return mission architecture with its own technology, based on architecture it has been developing for the moon, executives told investors ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. NASA is now reviewing and revising its multi-billion-dollar Mars sample-return mission series.

The experiment to make oxygen on Mars has come to an end, with the Perseverance rover’s MOXIE instrument completing its mission. MOXIE, or Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment, is a ...

The Perseverance rover, currently exploring Mars, isn't just performing scientific analyses and collecting samples. It also carries a small machine on board that could change the future of Mars ...

Scientists are turning to machine learning to help with off-world sample analysis. "This machine learning algorithm can help us by quickly filtering the data and pointing out which data are likely to ...

Mars 3 holds a strange place in space history: it was the first spacecraft to soft-land on Mars, yet its triumph lasted just ...

Unlocking the mysteries of the Red Planet, Intuitive Machines plans to aid NASA in the ambitious endeavor of returning samples from Mars. During a quarterly earnings call on Tuesday, executives at ...

An Indian spacecraft today was the first from the country to slide into orbit around Mars. The Indian Space Research Organization’s Mars Orbiter Mission, or MOM, reached Mars, fired its engines and ...

Forward-looking: Oxygen will be an essential element of any crewed Mars mission. Producing it on the red planet could be far more efficient than shipping it from Earth, and recent NASA experiments ...