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After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Roscosmos was summarily cut out of the ExoMars project, taking with it the rocket that was to deliver the Rosalind Franklin rover to space.

Researchers from the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration are in Australia carrying out research that will help future missions to Mars. The NASA delegation is looking for the earliest signs of life on Earth that will eventually be compared to rocks brought back from Mars. NASA officials have said that parts of the Pilbara…

December 30, 2022 Since landing in February 2021, NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover has sent back hundreds of thousands of images of the Red Planet. After

The Perseverance rover will explore Mars' Jezero Crater, gathering rock samples which may prove that life once existed on the red planet.

NASA announced Monday the official end of operations of its Phoenix Mars Lander after repeated attempts to contact the spacecraft failed.

A former top NASA administrator told graduates of RIT that their futures may seem as ambiguous as outer space. But by daring to do mighty things with hope instead of fear, untold possibilities will come into focus. Thomas Zurbuchen, astrophysicist and the longest continually serving associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate in NASA’s history, addressed the crowd during today's Academic Convocation ceremony in the Gordon Field House. More than 4,800 RIT graduates, inclu...

From Mars to the Universe: NASA scientists helped share their love for the red planet at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science.

The special guests will describe the latest developments and plans for Mars research near NASA's Roving with Perseverance exhibit.

Everyone's favorite Mars double act, the Ingenuity helicopter and the Perseverance rover, have been traveling together recently -- and there's photo evidence.

The Arkansas Space Grant Consortium board voted to fund Dr. Gija Geme, Dr. Tim Schroeder of chemistry, and Dr. Copie Moore of agriculture to explore the feasibility of growing crops such as soybeans, corn, lettuce, kale and more in a Mars soil simulant.