On Monday, Rocket Lab shares sank after Congress didn't fund its $4 billion proposal to retrieve samples from the Mars ...

Mars Sample Return would have turbo-charged Rocket Lab's revenue and added a feather to its cap.

NASA is approaching a decisive moment on a Mars telecommunications orbiter that could shape the future of robotic and human ...

The CEO is interested in bringing back rock samples collected by the agency's Perseverance rover from the red planet after some of the samples collected by the rover contained mineral textures that ...

Rocket Lab Corporation (RKLB) announced the successful launch of its two Explorer-class spacecraft. The launch was a part of NASA's ESCAPADE mission, in collaboration with the University of California ...

What everyone agrees on is that NASA needs a new spacecraft capable of relaying communications from Mars to Earth. This issue ...

Construction on Launch Complex 3 began in late 2023, and the site became operational when it officially opened last month. Credit: Rocket Lab Rocket Lab’s move to become an all-service provider in ...

The company said teams made initial contact with both spacecraft shortly after launch, noting that each vehicle produced stable power. Engineers will now run a series of early tests that include ...

The ESCAPADE mission, which launched to space on a Blue Origin rocket on Thursday, breaks the mold of how planetary science missions typically come together. By Kenneth Chang Kenneth Chang went to ...

Did Mars once have life as we know it deep in its ancient past? A recent study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences might be one step closer to answering that question as an ...

That sound you hear? It’s the United States’ leadership role in space exploration disintegrating in real time. This week, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) announced it was cutting 550 jobs as ...

NASA’s twin ESCAPADE spacecraft being prepares for shipment to Florida for a second launch attempt on Blue Origin’s New Glenn. Credit: Rocket Lab SALT LAKE CITY — An alternative trajectory developed ...