The team operating a remote chemistry lab onboard NASA’s Curiosity rover won a Gizmodo Science Fair award for discovering ...
To help scientists and engineers follow the action 154 million miles away, the trajectory of the Mars Science Laboratory was set up to make sure the rover's descent to the surface of the red planet ...
When NASA's newest rover, Curiosity, reaches Mars in about three weeks, it will not be the first to set its wheels on the Red Planet, but it will be the largest and most advanced robotic explorer ...
China announced Wednesday that it will build a dedicated planetary protection laboratory inside Hefei's Deep-Space Science City — a purpose-built facility designed to receive, quarantine, and ...
NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) has successfully completed a set of rigorous actuator tests, which agency managers hope is a sign that the problem-plagued rover mission has finally turned a ...
Exposed water ice at the north pole of Mars holds about 3% dust by mass, according to a study from the University of ...
Rocket Lab is challenging NASA's decision to give a Mars mission contract to another contender, saying the agency's review was inconsistent and incorrect. NASA awarded Blue Origin a $700 million ...