BEIJING -- China's mission to retrieve samples from Mars will advance to the flight model development phase within this year, ...

In 2011, when NASA faced a crisis due to the retirement of the Space Shuttle program, a speech by a female scientist went ...

What is not controversial is that NASA needs a new spacecraft capable of relaying communications from Mars to Earth. NASA’s best communications relay today is the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which ...

For several years now the biggest space agencies in the Western world have been struggling to get going the Mars Sample Return mission, perhaps the most ambitious robotic space mission ever undertaken ...

NASA wants to send an ambitious fleet of helicopters to soar through Martian skies—but scientists fear the endeavor could ...

The curiosity rover is to collect engineering data during the spacecraft's high-speed, extremely hot entry into the Martian atmosphere. NASA The findings arrive weeks after Congress effectively ...

Yet another Martian rock formation has revealed what may be signs of ancient life on the Red Planet. While these findings ...

Earth may be our beloved home planet, but Mars exudes main character energy.