LOS ANGELES — NASA's flagship mission to land a nuclear-powered, next-generation rover on Mars is facing development problems and ballooning costs that could threaten its scheduled launch next year.

NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) has successfully completed a set of rigorous actuator tests, which agency managers hope is a sign that the problem-plagued rover mission has finally turned a ...

Nasa's Psyche probe will swing past Mars today around 12:30 pm IST, using the planet's gravity to steal speed without burning ...

It’s an age-old question. Was there ever life on Mars? Earth just got closer to an answer — maybe. A rover built and managed in Southern California, with a mission to understand the Red Planet has ...

"Spectral analyses of pure minerals and mineral mixtures in the laboratory are necessary for interpreting the spectral data collected at Mars," said Bishop. At the SETI Institute, Bishop's group ...