NASA's troubled Mars sample-return program may have a new lifeline, in the form of a proposal from private space company Rocket Lab to help save the mission. However, while Perseverance has been ...

Rocket Lab Corporation (NASDAQ:RKLB) announced that it delivered two Explorer-class spacecraft to Kennedy Space Flight Center for NASA's Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers mission, ...

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 ...

The Mars Curiosity rover’s onboard mini-lab has helped confirm the existence of the largest organic molecules ever found on the Red Planet. The trio of long-chain compounds preserved in Martian soil ...

The twin ESCAPADE spacecraft at Rocket Lab's factory before shipment to Florida for launch. Credit: Rocket Lab WASHINGTON — A pair of smallsats built by Rocket Lab for a NASA mission to Mars have ...

(Phys.org) -- A large mosaic of THEMIS images showing Gale Crater, the landing site for Curiosity, NASA's Mars Science Laboratory rover, is now available for would-be Martians to explore using their ...

Mars has an active, electrically charged surface where dust storms and spinning dust devils regularly move and reshape the landscape. Mars is often portrayed as a dry, empty world, but the planet is ...

Two NASA spacecraft built by Rocket Lab are on the road from California to Florida this weekend to begin preparations for launch on Blue Origin’s first New Glenn rocket. These two science probes must ...

Each spring, when the winter frost departs, the bulbous bodies and sprawling legs of “spiders” appear across Mars’ southern hemisphere. They’re known as araneiform terrain, and scientists at NASA’s ...

Orbiting Mars is the next goal for Rocket Lab USA’s deep dive into outer space. Two twin satellites made by the Long Beach-based company were sent to Kennedy Space Center in Florida for preparations ...

Geochemical evidence from laboratory experiments for a potential solid inner core at the center of Mars is reported in Nature Communications. Data from NASA's InSight mission has revealed that Mars ...

Two Mars-bound smallsats that will fly on the highly anticipated debut of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket have arrived at their launch site in Florida. The satellite duo, known as ESCAPADE ("Escape and ...