See Rocket Lab's "proposed mission architecture" for a Mars sample return mission in this animation. Credit: Rocket Lab ...

The new test proved the capability of a new propellant that will enhance the rocket's performance, making a sample return mission from Mars increasingly viable.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with a payload including two lunar rovers from Japan and the United Arab Emirates, lifts off from Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape ...

The lander also will deploy a small commercially-built rover and a rocket-powered hopper that will jump up to 300 feet high before bounding into a nearby, ...

That's how a rover named Rashid from the UAE's space program wound up on board M1. Rashid is set to study moon dust and will send images and data back to Earth.

Unveiled at the 2025 Paris Air Show in late June, the fully electric MONA LUNA rover represents a major leap for Europe's ...

A rover has been collecting rocks from Mars for years. ... which is the same method that used a hovering rocket to lower NASA’s Perseverance and Curiosity rovers via cable onto the Martian surface.

Rocket Lab's plan for Mars. Earlier this year, the tiny rocket company that wants to grow up to be SpaceX someday told NASA that, if it's agreeable, Rocket Lab would be happy to perform MSR for it ...

This story was updated at 8:10 a.m. EST Saturday. NASA has begun fueling the rocket that will launch its huge Mars rover toward the Red Planet this morning (Nov. 26).

All aboard! Big FLEX. Space startup Astrolabs has signed a contract with SpaceX to send its rover to the Moon as soon as 2026 on board the space company's Starship rocket.

Header image: illustration depicts the Opportunity rover traveling on Mars' surface. The rover explored the Meridiani Planum where it found evidence of ancient liquid water. Opportunity survived ...