NASA has committed to running two competing landing architectures side by side for its Mars Sample Return mission, a strategy ...

In 2025, scientists reported the discovery of long-chain organic molecules called alkanes in the ancient mudstones of Mars. Now, in a new study, a team led by Alexander Pavlov of NASA's Goddard Space ...

Scientists may be one step closer in their hunt for signs of past life on Mars after the Curiosity rover's latest find.

Organic compounds found in Mars rocks are too abundant to rule out the possibility of Martian life in the red planet’s history, NASA scientists say. In March of 2025, NASA’s Curiosity rover discovered ...

After a yearslong series of setbacks, NASA's Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, or ESCAPADE, mission has finally begun its roundabout journey to Mars. Launched on Nov. 13, 2025, ...

The discovery is based on previous Curiosity findings revealed since 2018 about basic organics found on Mars though the quantity of such findings is comparatively huge this time.

NASA’s Perseverance rover has achieved a major first by driving across Mars using routes planned by artificial intelligence rather than human operators. Credit: NASA. An AI just ...

NASA Used AI to Drive Its Perseverance Mars Rover for the First Time ...

Scientists studying a rock sample collected by NASA’s Curiosity rover have uncovered something tantalizing: the largest ...

2025 has been a pretty busy year for space exploration, but perhaps for the first time in ages, the American space agency, NASA, was not at the center of attention. That's not because the organization ...

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