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Mars Landing

Cost of NASA's Martian Rock Retrieval Mission Is Skyrocketing | Illustration: Lex Villena; Chawalit Banpot

NASA

Price Tag of NASA's Martian Rock Retrieval Mission Is Skyrocketing

The Mars Sample Retrieval program is now estimated to cost double than what was originally projected.

Natalie Dowzicky | 6.26.2023 2:25 PM

Science & Technology

Mars Rover Finds Signs of Ancient Freshwater Lake

If life ever existed on the red planet, it might have been there

Reason Staff | 12.9.2013 7:20 PM

Science & Technology

Rover Reveals Mars Is Losing Its Atmosphere

Very, very slowly over the past 4 billion years

Reason Staff | 7.18.2013 6:40 PM

Science & Technology

NASA Finds Evidence of Water on Mars

Planet once may have had conditions that might have supported life

Reason Staff | 6.10.2013 4:00 PM

Science & Technology

Mars Rover Sidelined Again with Another Glitch

Computer file error

Reason Staff | 3.18.2013 7:00 PM

Science & Technology

Mars Rover Has First Significant Tech Problem

Computer failure will delay work for at least a week

Reason Staff | 3.1.2013 3:30 PM

Science & Technology

NASA Game Lets Players Recreate Mars Rover Landing

Downloadable on XBox

Reason Staff | 1.11.2013 8:52 PM

Science & Technology

NASA to Send New Mars Rover in 2020

Maybe call it "Curiouser and Curiouser"?

Reason Staff | 12.4.2012 7:15 PM

Science & Technology

Mars Soil Similar to Hawaiian Volcanic Soil

But surfing not as good

Reason Staff | 10.31.2012 9:52 PM

Science & Technology

Mars Rover Digs Up Shiny Particles

Native to red planet, not debris from Curiosity, as was feared

Reason Staff | 10.18.2012 5:50 PM

Science & Technology

Rover Finds Proof Mars Once Had Flowing Water

Researchers estimate planet had water for thousands to millions of years

Reason Staff | 9.27.2012 4:23 PM

Science & Technology

Mars Rover Prepares to Touch a Rock

Exciting!

Reason Staff | 9.21.2012 3:00 PM

Policy

Mars Mission Jeopardized By Germ Paranoia

Tim Cavanaugh | 9.12.2012 1:10 PM

Science & Technology

Stunning New Mars Photos … Still Look Like the Desert

What? It's true!

Reason Staff | 8.27.2012 11:00 PM

Science & Technology

Angry Birds Cash in on Mars Craze

Or perhaps vice-versa.

Reason Staff | 8.24.2012 7:00 PM

Science & Technology

Mars Rover to Begin Actually Going Places on Mars

Various tests passed. Curiosity will be getting curiouser tomorrow.

Reason Staff | 8.21.2012 8:30 PM

Science & Technology

Mars Rover Ready to Actually Rove and Stuff

Nobody actually cares anymore.

Reason Staff | 8.17.2012 5:50 PM

Science & Technology

India to Send Orbiter to Mars

For science! Expensive, redundant science!

Reason Staff | 8.15.2012 11:00 PM

Science & Technology

Mars Rover Patched

Will spend next year traveling five miles.

Reason Staff | 8.14.2012 6:23 PM

Science & Technology

More Photos from the Gobi Desert

Or "Mars," as some are insisting on calling it.

Reason Staff | 8.13.2012 9:08 PM

Science & Technology

Curious About Better Mars Rover Pics?

HD images give gritty look at surface.

Reason Staff | 8.8.2012 4:07 PM

Science & Technology

New Mars Photos Start Transmitting Back to Earth

The nuclear-powered Curiosity will dig into the Martian surface to analyze what's there and hunt for some of the molecular building blocks of life, including carbon.

Reason Staff | 8.6.2012 6:37 PM

Science & Technology

Private Funding for Space Exploration? Katherine Mangu-Ward Debates Bill Nye on CNBC

Reason Staff | 8.6.2012 5:02 PM

Science & Technology

Mars Rover Lands Successfully

Curiosity begins two-year mission to look for signs of life.

Reason Staff | 8.6.2012 1:49 AM

Science & Technology

Can't Get Into Book of Mormon? Watch Mars Landing Instead

NASA to broadcast rover landing in Times Square

Reason Staff | 7.31.2012 6:55 PM

Politics

What is an Astronaut's Life Worth?: An Interview with Robert Zubrin

Anthony Fisher and Matt Welch | 5.18.2012 11:44 AM

Politics

Space X's Elon Musk: "I think it would be cool to be born on Earth and die on Mars. Hopefully not at the point of impact."

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 3.15.2012 10:01 AM

Politics

Hugo Chávez Will Turn Planet Mars Red By 2030

Tim Cavanaugh | 2.13.2012 7:57 PM

Science & Technology

Does Mars Have Rights?

An ethical case for terraforming the Red Planet

Ronald Bailey | 1.30.2012 10:30 AM

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Politics

A Twinkle of Hope

Obama has moved space policy in the right direction, but we still have a long way to go.

Rand Simberg | 1.25.2012 4:30 PM

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Science & Technology

Rocket Men

Meet the 21st-century pioneers who want to take you into space

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 1.23.2012 12:00 PM

Politics

Goodnight Moonshot

Turning the lights out on a government-aggrandizing metaphor

Matt Welch | 1.9.2012 12:00 PM

Politics

Phobos-Grunt, We Hardly Knew Ye

Tim Cavanaugh | 11.9.2011 2:51 PM

Politics

Does Mars Have Rights?

An ethical case for terraforming the Red Planet

Ronald Bailey | 11.8.2011 6:10 PM

Science & Technology

Mars or Bust!

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 8.5.2011 3:22 PM

Mars Landing

Salt Water on Mars

Ronald Bailey | 3.19.2009 1:47 PM

Science & Technology

Mars: the Red-Tape Planet?

Bureaucrats...in...space!

Ronald Bailey | 1.14.2004 12:00 AM

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