The next Mars rovers may traverse the Red Planet with futuristic tires. NASA 's Glenn Research Center released imagery and footage from testing of a novel tire, called a shape memory alloy spring tire ...

Any vehicle traversing the rocky terrain on Mars needs a sturdy set of wheels. NASA’s Perseverance rover, for example, sports ...

NASA will explore two different strategies for fetching Mars rocks collected by the Perseverance rover, and there's a chance ...

NASA wants to return Mars samples to Earth, but budget problems and technical woes have the mission caught between a rock and the Red Planet. There appears to be an unofficial robotic space race ...

An Oct. 24 Facebook video (direct link, archive link) shows purported images from a NASA Mars rover mission ... Fact check: Gases on exoplanet K2-18b can be produced by things besides aliens ...

Earlier this month, outgoing NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and other agency officials presented two possible plans for the mission, known as Mars Sample Return, for the incoming administration.

NASA's Mars Chopper concept ... changer for the exploration not only of Mars but of any alien worlds with a solid surface and an atmosphere that can support flight. "Scientists could use Chopper ...

We can deliver MSR mission success too.” The Mars Sample Return mission, a joint NASA and European Space Agency (ESA) program, would mark the first time samples from another planet have been ...

"The NASA/ESA approach to MSR seeks to address as many different high-priority science questions about Mars as we can from one location - Jezero Crater," said MEPAG chair, Victoria Hamilton, also a ...

Nuclear thermal propulsion fuel could reduce the travel time for missions to Mars from six months to just 45 days.

Nasa wants to send ... suits that are adaptable to Mars' wicked weather conditions (with medium surface temperatures of -65C); a home on wheels so astronauts can work 'on another world'; surface ...