The European Space Agency (ESA) wants to develop key technologies for a Mars surface lander by the mid-2030s.

A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get ...

Sending humans to Mars is one of the most ambitious goals in the history of space exploration. Unlike missions to the Moon, ...

Thousands of mounds and hills in Mars' barren northern plains are full of clay minerals, providing evidence that the rocks ...

The company has outlined its proposed architecture to return martian rock and dust samples to Earth for research.

On this date, Jan. 18, 2004, the European Space Agency’s Mars Express finalized mapping of the Red Planet’s south pole. The ...

An exploding budget and an unraveling schedule spell disappointment for NASA's mission to learn more about Mars's history.

Flying some 140 million miles to Mars is one of NASA's biggest plans so far and a space expert has revealed exactly how ...

American space agency NASA announced it is looking at two ways of landing hardware on Mars for the Sample Return mission, ...

NASA unveils a groundbreaking approach to bring Martian rock samples back to Earth by 2026, introducing competition between ...

And while Mars rocks do occasionally come to Earth ... as an orbiter built by the European Space Agency would be tasked with bringing the rocks back. But NASA said the proposed plans would ...