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 ...

Nearly a decade ago, a dark horse space mining operation by the name of Moon Express floated an outrageous idea: Build a spaceship, send it to the moon, collect moon rocks, ship them back to Earth ...

NASA’s twin ESCAPADE spacecraft will uncover how the Sun stripped Mars of its atmosphere. Mars is a very different world ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, recently announced a significant workforce reduction, laying off 550 employees on October 14, 2025. This marks a notable downsizing at ...

NASA has selected Rocket Lab to launch its Aspera smallsat mission, which will study gases in the vast regions of space between galaxies. “As a long-trusted launch partner for NASA’s most pioneering ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. JPL is a research and development lab federally funded by NASA and managed by the California Institute of Technology.

In a brief statement, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's (JPL) Director Dave Gallagher announced that the organization is letting go of around 550 employees at its La Cañada Flintridge facility in ...

Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (NASDAQ:RKLB) disclosed an agreement with NASA to include its Neutron rocket under the existing Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare contract. The Neutron, Rocket ...

NASA is pondering a Mars mission that could cost $11 billion and take 15 years to complete. Rocket Lab says it can accomplish NASA's goal for $4 billion, and do it in six years. The contract would ...

NASA wants to commission a Mars Sample Return mission to retrieve soil and air samples collected by the Perseverance Rover on Mars. Multiple space companies are bidding on the work. Rocket Lab has the ...