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

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has completed production and testing of the heatshield for NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL). The heatshield is half of the large and sophisticated two-part aeroshell ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Each spring, when the winter frost departs, the bulbous bodies and sprawling legs of “spiders” appear across Mars’ southern hemisphere. They’re known as araneiform terrain, and scientists at NASA’s ...

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 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 ...

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 ...