Funding for science is very much on the chopping block in President Trump's proposed budget. It's a fraught moment for NASA, ...

I'm incredibly excited, as part of the Ars Live series, to host a conversation with some of the very best space reporters in ...

Donald Trump has unveiled a bold new proposal: allocating over $1 billion for Mars exploration through a public-private ...

Terraforming Mars might sound far-fetched, but researchers argue in a new study that we should take the idea seriously.

NASA employees who would typically be in the know about such plans, however, were left in the dark about a potential push to Mars, a senior official told ... has always been committed to challenge and ...

The debate about Martian life, however, won't be settled anytime soon. NASA's Mars Sample Return mission ... cigar-sized titanium tubes. Plans won't be finalized until 2026, and it's unlikely ...

The proposals present alternatives to the original Mars Sample Return program. Designed by NASA and the European Space Agency, the initial plan was deemed unwieldy after an independent review ...

The NYC space is where the term ‘black hole’ was coined and where James Hansen became famous for his warnings about climate ...

NASA has been working on plans to bring samples from Mars ... and bring Mars samples home to our labs to settle the debate about life on Mars,” said Daniel Glavin, senior scientist at NASA ...

March 25 (UPI) --The NASA rover "Curiosity" discovered ... the next big step" to bring samples from Mars back to Earth in order to "settle the debate about life on Mars." "The findings reported ...

The findings could settle an “intense debate” over ... for extant life in Mars’ subsurface,” declared study author Andrea Butturini of the University of Barcelona. NASA, ESA, Maryland ...

Mars2020 marks the first time NASA has gotten serious about bringing back samples of Mars rocks. And although that plan will ultimately involve billions more dollars and at least one other ...