In an exciting development, the plucky helicopter has now inspired Skyfall, a mission concept recently unveiled by Virginia-based AeroVironment (AV) and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), who ...

A NASA Mars mission's long and winding road to the launch pad is nearing its end. The twin ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma ...

Robots can represent astronauts as avatars on Mars. A simulated experiment by NASA and DLR should show whether this can work.

A slick trailer shows how NASA could five-up itself if the successor to Ingenuity is a whole batch of little sisters.

Donald Trump plans to scrap Nasa's Mars Sample Return mission – stranding test tubes on the Red Planet and ceding potentially ...

NASA's successful cultivation of plants in space promises fresh food and psychological comfort, crucial for long-duration Mars missions and deep space exploration.

NASA and India plan to deploy a satellite that will map the Earth down to a centimeter after a launch on Wednesday from the ...

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From a half-million miles away, NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft captured Mars with its two moons, Phobos and Deimos, in ...

In 2022, the Perseverance Rover rolled into a chapter of deep intrigue on Mars. Just as Schiaparelli once misinterpreted ...

In this concept illustration provided by NASA, NASA's Perseverance (Mars 2020) rover will store rock and soil samples in sealed tubes on the planet's surface for future missions to retrieve in the ...