After its voyage past Mars, Mariner 4 maintained intermittent communication with JPL and returned data about the interplanetary environment for two more years. But by the end of 1967, the spacecraft ...

The more scientists study the Red Planet, the more they find unusual objects and patterns scattered across Mars' surface. As ...

Mariner 4, built by JPL in Pasadena, took the images on July 14, 1965. One of the mission's leaders reflects on decades of ...

With Trump’s new budget cutting NASA science programs, the Mars Sample Return mission could be replaced by a private-sector ...

Sixty years ago today, NASA’s Mariner 4 spacecraft took the first up-close images of Mars, changing humanity's understanding ...

NASA’s Mars Sample Return Mission may cost up to $11 billion, risking c Lockheed Martin proposes a reduced-cost plan using InSight lander techn Rocket Lab also offered a budget-friendly MSR proposal i ...

The aerospace giant says it can revive Mars Sample Return with a leaner, lower-cost approach drawing on proven designs.

NASA's Mars Sample Return mission has long been a point of contention for the agency, but now someone might have a plan to ...

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has learned to pull off daring 120-degree rolls that give its SHARAD radar ...

The spacecraft now almost tips upside down relative to Mars to give its radar the best view. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter ...

THE famously desolate Mars landscape could be scattered with trees to the untrained eye, according to a recently shared Nasa ...