NASA’s other rover, Perseverance, landed in the Jezero Crater on February 18, 2021, to search for signs of ancient life and collect rock samples for a future return to Earth.

In August, NASA Acting Administrator Sean Duffy directed the agency to fast-track an effort to land a reactor on the moon by late 2029. The agency wants a 100-kilowatt system, about enough to power a ...

The U.S. and China are in a sprint toward manned missions to the lunar surface by the end of this decade, with sights on 2029 ...

The company’s Starship rocket, which has suffered a series of recent test explosions, is still years away from being ready ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Cleveland’s NASA Glenn Research Center is spearheading an ambitious project that sounds like something out of science fiction: building a nuclear power plant on the moon by 2030. The ...

NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications technology has successfully shown that data encoded in lasers can be reliably transmitted, received, and decoded after traveling millions of miles from Earth ...

The Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE) received a $750,000 grant from NASA to study underground ecosystems powered by ...

The Mars Telecommunications Orbiter (MTO) isn’t a new idea. Conceived in the early 2000s, the project aimed to deliver ...

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and The University of Texas at San Antonio (UT San Antonio) will flight test novel ...

As humanity aims to venture deeper into space with missions like NASA’s Artemis II, a groundbreaking experiment known as AVATAR (A Virtual Astronaut Tissue Analog Response) promises to revolutionize ...

In fairness to the Perseverance rover, this is exactly what it was built for. Nicknamed Percy, the machine was sent to Jezero ...

Viking consisted of two twin orbiters and landers, with experimental chambers in the landers to conduct three biology ...