Los Alamos ChemCam to vaporize rocks on Mars to determine composition Mars mission Job One: Get there. Job Two: Find rocks and zap them with your laser tool. Now learn the nature of the debris by ...

Orbiting Mars is the next goal for Rocket Lab USA’s deep dive into outer space. Two twin satellites made by the Long Beach-based company were sent to Kennedy Space Center in Florida for preparations ...

The way this document is written suggests that when NASA scores bidders for the Mars Telecommunications Network, the addition ...

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The Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite has completed assembly at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and is nearly ready for a December delivery to NASA’s Jet Propulsion ...

LONG BEACH, Calif., Nov. 13, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rocket Lab Corporation (RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or “the Company”), a leading launch and space systems company, today announced its two Explorer-class ...

Each spring, when the winter frost departs, the bulbous bodies and sprawling legs of “spiders” appear across Mars’ southern hemisphere. They’re known as araneiform terrain, and scientists at NASA’s ...

Rocket Lab shared its vision on X, formerly Twitter, stating, "Talk first. Land later," while unveiling plans for the MTO. The company described the satellite as a persistent, high-bandwidth ...

Two NASA spacecraft built by Rocket Lab are on the road from California to Florida this weekend to begin preparations for launch on Blue Origin’s first New Glenn rocket. These two science probes must ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's next Mars rover will land at the foot of a layered mountain inside the planet's Gale crater.

Geochemical evidence from laboratory experiments for a potential solid inner core at the center of Mars is reported in Nature Communications. Data from NASA's InSight mission has revealed that Mars ...

(Phys.org) —As it approaches the second anniversary of its landing on Mars, NASA's Curiosity rover is also approaching its first close look at bedrock that is part of Mount Sharp, the layered mountain ...