The space-related calendar is filled with launches, exploratory vehicles for other worlds, experiments beyond Earth, an…

The Curiosity rover has taken the first sample drilled on Mars in more than a year, after engineers designed from Earth…

In the 1960s, NASA conducted a series of unmanned lunar missions known as the Ranger program. The primary objective of…

In the June of 1972, NASA's Langley Research Center, based in Hampton, Virginia, collaborated with Martin Marietta…

The 1996 Mars Surveyor Program, spearheaded by NASA, embarked on an ambitious mission that included two pivotal endeavo…

In the 1970s, as U.S. piloted spaceflight retreated to low-Earth orbit, NASA planning for advanced robotic Mars explor…

"MARS ROVER SAMPLE Return (MRSR) is widely perceived as too expensive." Thus began the first of two February…

Spacecraft orbiting Jupiter and Saturn have revealed those worlds and their rings and moons in amazing detail. In 2003,…

Some scientists believe that the time has come for a robotic sample-return mission to the moon's largest impact str…

In 1983, NASA contractor Science Applications, Inc. proposed a half-dozen missions to Saturn's mysterious moon Tita…

The Mars Stratigraphy Mission represents a groundbreaking initiative aiming to explore the stratigraphy of Mars in dep…

Prior to the exploration missions to the outer regions of the solar system, a precursor to manned Mars missions in the …

Between 1976 and 1978, a remarkably thorough student project at Purdue University garnered attention from NASA, the Bri…

In 2004-2005, a scarcity of plutonium posed a threat to the New Horizons Pluto/Kuiper Belt spacecraft, potentially lim…

The exploration of Mars has been a longstanding ambition for the scientific community, and the prospect of retrieving …