Mars Sample Return would have turbo-charged Rocket Lab's revenue and added a feather to its cap.

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 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 ...

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, ...

WASHINGTON — A U.S. Space Force and NASA experiment lifted off from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 at Wallops Island, Virginia Dec. 18 at 12:03 a.m. Eastern to test a new small-satellite architecture ...

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 ...

What everyone agrees on is that NASA needs a new spacecraft capable of relaying communications from Mars to Earth. This issue ...

America has a new low-cost space services provider. 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, ...

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 ...

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 ...