Mars 2020 is targeted for launch in July/August 2020 aboard an Atlas V-541 rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The first planetary science mission ...

A launch on that day would result in a landing on Mars on 18 February 2021. After completing all build operations at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, the Mars 2020 rover ...

President Donald Trump recently announced that the United States would work to land astronauts on Mars, preferably within the ...

A new paper released today documents the first soil, airfall dust, and rock fragment samples collected by NASA for return ...

And you get to a point where you can actually increase days on the backside of the launch opportunity. And that’s where we’re at with Mars 2020.” Some of the early assumptions include ...

"The first Starships to Mars will launch in 2 years when the next Earth ... with arrival in 2025," Musk said at the time. Then, in 2020, Musk said in an interview with Axel Springer CEO Mathias ...

A number of samples from the planet have been collected as part of NASA's Mars 2020 mission, aimed at getting a better understanding of the planet's geological processes and history as well as to ...

With the roughly 20-day wide launch window for the Mars 2020 mission rapidly approaching, the hype train for the next big mission to the Red Planet is really building up steam. And with good ...

On the morning of January 27, 1967, the crew was sitting atop the launch ... the moon or Mars. And if all goes well, the United Arab Emirates will join that list in the summer of 2020 when its ...

ESA is already planning to send the much-delayed, life-hunting Rosalind Franklin rover to Mars in the launch window opening in 2028. But the agency is already setting its sights on a more ...