Congress largely rejected the massive NASA cuts proposed earlier in 2025 and approved a fiscal year 2026 budget that kept ...

NASA's Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission could have been a major breakthrough in assessing the habitability of the Red Planet. Unfortunately, however, it has effectively been cancelled, as the U.S.

Only companies that worked on the Mars Sample Return program need apply, narrowing the field to a handful of space industry heavyweights. NASA is looking for ways to improve the communications network ...

NASA is reserving a small amount of space on a Mars telecommunications spacecraft for science, which could be one or more ...

The loss of MAVEN in December has added urgency to NASA’s Mars Telecommunication Network contest. Credit: NASA COLORADO SPRINGS—Lockheed Martin, one of several space companies vying for NASA’s Mars ...