NASA is expanding its plans for Mars, looking at not only a big, high-budget, long-term project to bring back a sample from Mars but also smaller, lower-cost missions to enable exploration of the ...

NASA has selected nine U.S. companies to conduct preliminary concept studies aimed at exploring how commercial services can contribute to future missions to Mars. Each of these companies will ...

The concept studies could end up aiding NASA's Mars science missions down the road. NASA has selected nine companies to develop concepts that could aid agency science missions to Mars down the road.

NASA has identified nine U.S. companies to perform a total of 12 concept studies of how commercial services can be applied to enable science missions to Mars. Each awardee will receive between $ ...

Officials with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration will pay nine companies between $200,000 and $300,000 each to conduct a dozen tests to support future missions to Mars. "We're in ...

Mars exploration has always been the exclusive purview of national space agencies, but NASA is trying to change that, awarding a dozen research tasks to private companies as a prelude to ...

NASA announced the discovery of a planet 40 light years from Earth that orbits every 12.8 days and is possibly even habitable. “We’ve found the nearest, transiting, temperate, Earth-size world ...

May 1 (UPI) --Officials with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration will pay nine companies between $200,000 and $300,000 each to conduct a dozen tests to support future missions to Mars.

NASA has selected nine companies to develop concepts that could aid agency science missions to Mars down the road. The agency is awarding each company between $200,000 and $300,000 for this early ...