A “selfie” taken by the Perseverance Mars rover as it examines Cheyava Falls, an arrowhead-shaped rock in the center that contains potential biosignatures of past Martian life. Credit: ...

A bipartisan congressional agreement on NASA’s final budget for the current fiscal year offers a glimmer of hope that the space agency’s ambitious but troubled effort to bring pieces of Mars to Earth ...

The rim of Wahoo crater in Chryse Planitia imaged by the HiRise camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The crater is a possible landing site for Tianwen-3. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona ...

NASA's mission is to return rock, soil and others samples to Earth for study. NASA announced Monday it is revising plans for its Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission due to the estimated cost and long ...

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory laid off 100 contractors last week and will scale back part of the first-ever effort to bring pieces of Mars to Earth, after a cost-cutting order from NASA that lawmakers ...

7:44 a.m. March 7, 2024: An earlier version of this article understated the size of the decrease in NASA’s full-year budget between 2023 and 2024 as being $500,000. It is $500 million. A bipartisan ...

Jennifer Simonson is a business journalist with a decade of experience covering entrepreneurship and small business. Drawing on her background as a founder of multiple startups, she writes for Forbes ...

Traditional mission statements focus on the company, not the customer. To create a more customer-centric organization, start with changing your mission statement by giving it an external focus. While ...

After an independent review concluded NASA's plans to robotically collect and return rock and soil samples from Mars could cost up to $11 billion, NASA "pulled the plug" and is focusing on two options ...

NASA is seemingly caught between a Mars rock and a hard place. The space agency’s best-laid plan to robotically retrieve prized samples of the Red Planet for scrutiny back on Earth has been decades in ...

The United States Space Force has a new mission statement. Space Force unveiled the new statement this week, outlining the service's mission in just nine brief words: "Secure our Nation's interests in ...