We're hurtling toward a new era of mega-rockets with enough power to send colonists to the red planet, but should we?

NASA's beleaguered Mars Sample Return program currently faces extreme costs of up to $11 billion and a timeline that could reach 2040. The year 2025 isn't even a week old and NASA is already ...

The "Mars Chopper" as NASA is calling it, appears bulkier compared to its predecessor and has a greater payload capacity.

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter, which flew on Mars in April 2021, became the first aircraft to achieve powered, controlled flight on a planet other than Earth.

Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory ... and images every Martian sol (a solar day on Mars). But there may be no way to get that data back to Earth. The Perseverance rover, through ...

Related: NASA's downed Ingenuity helicopter ... and images every Martian sol (a solar day on Mars). But there may be no way to get that data back to Earth. The Perseverance rover, through which ...

Ingenuity may be down, but it's not out. Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) gave an update on the downed Ingenuity Mars helicopter on Wednesday (Dec. 11) during the 2024 Annual ...

The craft’s vision navigation system, which was designed to track textured features on the surface of Mars ... test data to the Perseverance rover about once a week,” which NASA says ...

said in a NASA statement. "Ingenuity has given us the confidence and data to envision the future of flight at Mars." The futuristic chopper's design is still in its infancy, and some things will ...