Intuitive Machines is looking to help reshape the Mars Sample Return mission architecture with its own technology, based on architecture it has been developing for the moon, executives told investors ...

The experiment to make oxygen on Mars has come to an end, with the Perseverance rover’s MOXIE instrument completing its mission. MOXIE, or Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment, is a ...

Scientists are turning to machine learning to help with off-world sample analysis. "This machine learning algorithm can help us by quickly filtering the data and pointing out which data are likely to ...

Unlocking the mysteries of the Red Planet, Intuitive Machines plans to aid NASA in the ambitious endeavor of returning samples from Mars. During a quarterly earnings call on Tuesday, executives at ...

What makes flying an $80 million helicopter on Mars a marvel of engineering? If you asked Florbela Costa, she’d say several things spring to mind. Firstly, the thin air on Mars makes it especially ...

Mars was struck by an asteroid between five and ten million years ago. It produced a huge crater and launched a fresh meteorite made of ancient Martian crust into space, which finally plummeted into ...

Forward-looking: Oxygen will be an essential element of any crewed Mars mission. Producing it on the red planet could be far more efficient than shipping it from Earth, and recent NASA experiments ...