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 ...

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

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.

NASA invites you to submit your name to be included on a microchip that will be sent to Mars as part of NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory mission, scheduled to launch in 2011. Mars Science Laboratory is ...

On November 26, 2011, the NASA Curiosity rover launched to Mars. Curiosity was the biggest and most powerful rover anyone had ...

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 ...

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

The precious Mars samples collected by the Perseverance rover could be coming to Earth sooner rather than later. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

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 ...