NASA solicited proposals for studies of commercial approaches to carrying out some aspects of Mars exploration, including delivery of payloads and communications and imaging services. Credit: NASA ...

NASA is expanding its plans for Mars, looking at not only a big, high-budget, long-term project to bring back a sample from Mars but also smaller, lower-cost missions to enable exploration of the red ...

NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is starting to experience the kinds of cost overruns that have plagued previous high-profile space projects such as the Space Launch System and the James Webb Space ...

In the 50 years since the first robotic explorers landed on Mars, exploration of the red planet has been undertaken exclusively by government space programs. NASA is now working to change that. After ...

If it pans out, it may complicate Elon Musk’s dreams of founding a settlement on the fourth planet from the sun.

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WASHINGTON, JAN. 5 – NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin sees human exploration of Mars within the next three decades “and possibly the database in ten”, but suggests the short-term future of ...

NASA has issued a Request for Information (RFI) to investigate the possibility of using commercial Mars-orbiting satellites to provide telecommunications capabilities for future robotic missions to ...

NASA has selected nine U.S. companies to conduct preliminary concept studies aimed at exploring how commercial services can contribute to future missions to Mars. Each of these companies will receive ...

NASA is debating whether to work with commercial partners to get to Mars. And while SpaceX is the “elephant in the room,” as Ars Technica put it, NASA is keeping its options wide open. It’s a notable ...