NASA wants to go to Mars again -- and this time, bring back rocks. With a plan that America's premier space agency describes as its "most ambitious, multi-mission campaign," it intends to send a ...

Rocket Lab wants NASA to open up the Mars Sample Return program to commercial competition, arguing it can carry out the mission faster and cheaper than the agency's alternatives. Credit: Rocket Lab ...

NASA's troubled Mars sample-return program may have a new lifeline, in the form of a proposal from private space company Rocket Lab to help save the mission. However, while Perseverance has been ...

NASA's chief center for robotic planetary exploration is conducting another round of layoffs. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California — which manages many of NASA's high-profile ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) will lay off a significant portion of its workforce on Wednesday, according to a memo that the company sent on Tuesday. The lab, which specializes in robotic ...

NASA has selected Rocket Lab to launch its Aspera smallsat mission, which will study gases in the vast regions of space between galaxies. Rocket Lab's Electron will launch Aspera, a cubesat being ...

NASA confirmed its SunRISE small satellites completed launch vibration testing, marking a completed prelaunch milestone ahead ...

NASA is in desperate need of an alternative plan for its Mars Sample Return, and is hoping the private industry can salvage its ambitious mission. Reading time 3 minutes For more than three years, ...

Rocket Lab founder and CEO Peter Beck started his own rocket company after NASA turned him down. Today, Rocket Lab launches satellites for NASA and the company is currently worth approximately $3.3 ...

At the Virginia Peninsula Chamber of Commerce’s inaugural State of the Labs address, the key message was that scientific breakthroughs originate from the Peninsula’s two federal labs, making ...