On Aug. 6, 2012, NASA's Curiosity rover successfully touched down on the Martian surface. Curiosity is NASA's biggest and ...

See Rocket Lab's "proposed mission architecture" for a Mars sample return mission in this animation. Credit: Rocket Lab ...

The most striking images from the world of science this week: including an anniversary on Mars, a maze of 1.5 million books ...

There are many ways for rovers and spacecraft to look for evidence of life, recent or ancient. Now, researchers report a new ...

Visible in the mosaic, which was stitched together from 96 images taken at a location the science team calls Falbreen, are a rock that appears to lie on top of a sand ripple, a boundary line between ...

The first space race was about flags and footprints. Now, the new race is to build there, and doing so hinges on power.

One of NASA's most traveled astronauts in the agency's first decade, Lovell flew four times: Gemini 7, Gemini 12, Apollo 8 ...