What is not controversial is that NASA needs a new spacecraft capable of relaying communications from Mars to Earth. NASA’s ...

Congressional supporters of the Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission have buckled to pressure from the Trump administration to kill the centerpiece of NASA’s exploration plans over the next decade.

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

Nasa has officially opened bidding for a new Mars telecommunications spacecraft, but the $700 million mission is already attracting controversy over concerns that the competition may favour a specific ...

Mars has become one of the most intensely studied destinations in planetary science, with rovers, landers, and orbiters ...