Funding for science is very much on the chopping block in President Trump's proposed budget. It's a fraught moment for NASA, ...

I'm incredibly excited, as part of the Ars Live series, to host a conversation with some of the very best space reporters in ...

Mars has received considerable attention in the past few decades, thanks to the many robotic missions exploring it to learn ...

NASA employees who would typically be in the know about such plans, however, were left in the dark about a potential push to Mars, a senior official told ... has always been committed to challenge and ...

Donald Trump has unveiled a bold new proposal: allocating over $1 billion for Mars exploration through a public-private ...

The debate about Martian life, however, won't be settled anytime soon. NASA's Mars Sample Return mission ... cigar-sized titanium tubes. Plans won't be finalized until 2026, and it's unlikely ...

The proposals present alternatives to the original Mars Sample Return program. Designed by NASA and the European Space Agency, the initial plan was deemed unwieldy after an independent review ...

The return of the samples also will help NASA's search for signs of ancient life." But the mission to return those Perseverance Mars rover samples to Earth is at a crossroads. One plan to return ...

March 25 (UPI) --The NASA rover "Curiosity" discovered ... the next big step" to bring samples from Mars back to Earth in order to "settle the debate about life on Mars." "The findings reported ...

NASA has been working on plans to bring samples from Mars ... and bring Mars samples home to our labs to settle the debate about life on Mars,” said Daniel Glavin, senior scientist at NASA ...