NASA’s Curiosity rover detected more than 20 complex organic molecules in 3.5-billion-year-old clay-bearing rock inside Gale ...
Congress largely rejected the massive NASA cuts proposed earlier in 2025 and approved a fiscal year 2026 budget that kept ...
Mars exploration is heating up. NASA eyes sample returns and crewed landings by the 2030s, but its current relay satellites -- some decades past design life -- struggle with data traffic from rovers, ...
For several years now the biggest space agencies in the Western world have been struggling to get going the Mars Sample Return mission, perhaps the most ambitious robotic space mission ever undertaken ...
NASA’s Curiosity rover has uncovered an array of organic molecules within the Gale Crater on Mars using the onboard Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) suite. While organic compounds have been detected on ...
When Congress passed a fiscal year 2026 “minibus” appropriations bill in January, much of the space community breathed a sigh of relief. Congress had rejected the steep cuts proposed by the Trump ...
Researchers found geological features that suggest a massive ocean once covered a third of the planet. NASA's Curiosity rover discovered seven organic molecules never before seen on Mars. These ...