Living in today's age of ambitious robotic exploration of Mars, with an eventual human mission to the red planet likely to ...

NASA’s Opportunity rover made one of its strangest discoveries on Mars—**a vein-like object embedded in the Martian surface.

“We’ve spent nearly $20 billion on nuclear (space) power since the 50s and the only system we currently have is a light-bulb sized, 100-watt radioisotope generator,” Bhavya Lal, former NASA Associate ...