For astronaut safety and to bolster success of the human exploration to come later, NASA needs an end-to-end demonstration of ...

Perseverance rover found a rock on Mars named Phippsaksla with so much iron and nickel that it could be a meteorite.

NASA's Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission, designed to bring drilled rock samples from the Martian surface back to Earth to ...

U.S. plans to return Mars samples face delays as China advances its own mission. Scientists and policymakers debate costs, timelines, and the role of sample return in future Mars exploration ...

In a quiet corner of an ancient riverbed on Mars, a speckled rock has pushed the search for extraterrestrial life into its ...

NASA is quietly rewriting the script for human exploration of the Red Planet, turning robots from remote-controlled tools ...

A Storyteller, a Community, and 30 Years of GratitudeJimmy Jones' connection to Up & Coming Weekly began in 2007 when he attended a writing class at FTCC. His instructor, the late and great Melissa ...

Another view from Perseverance shows how windswept Mars' landscape truly is.

NASA astronaut Mike Fincke will set an agency record when he makes his 10th ever spacewalk Jan. 8, 2026, along with Zena ...

Mark Kelly, a Democratic senator from Arizona, was recently censured. Prior to his career in elected office, Kelly was a NASA ...

Four astronauts are about to become the first humans to venture near the moon in more than half a century since NASA's iconic ...

Godspeed, Artemis 2! As early as February, 4 astronauts will board NASA's Orion capsule atop the SLS rocket in Florida for 10 ...