Researchers have documented 55 instances of "mini lightning" over two Martian years by eavesdropping on the whirling wind ...

LOS ANGELES — NASA's flagship mission to land a nuclear-powered, next-generation rover on Mars is facing development problems and ballooning costs that could threaten its scheduled launch next year.

On November 26, 2011, the NASA Curiosity rover launched to Mars. Curiosity was the biggest and most powerful rover anyone had ...

Researchers detected what may be Martian lightning by eavesdropping on the whirling wind recorded by NASA's Perseverance ...

NASA officials will be available on Sept. 27, 2006, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Florida Solar Energy Center, 1679 Clearlake Road, Cocoa, Fla., to exchange information and receive ...

However, the most interesting equipment to be deployed in the future has to be the robodog. Called the Legged Autonomous ...

NASA invites you to submit your name to be included on a microchip that will be sent to Mars as part of NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory mission, scheduled to launch in 2011. Mars Science Laboratory is ...

NASA has chosen eight proposals to provide instrumentation for its Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover, scheduled for launch in 2009. MSL is to be a mobile laboratory, spending two years exploring ...

NASA's troubled Mars sample-return program may have a new lifeline, in the form of a proposal from private space company Rocket Lab to help save the mission. However, while Perseverance has been ...

One of the great unsolved problems in modern planetary science is written on the surface of Mars. Mars has canyons that were carved by rivers, so it was once warm enough for liquid water. How—and ...