NASA recently deemed this situation unacceptable. In April 2024, agency chief Bill Nelson announced that an overhaul of the ...

The Mars Sample Return mission has been ranked as the highest priority by planetary scientists, who hope to find signs of ...

NASA is pitching a cheaper and quicker way of getting rocks and soil back from Mars, after seeing its original plan swell to ...

NASA's beleaguered Mars Sample Return program currently faces extreme costs of up to $11 billion and a timeline that could ...

Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars soar to No. 1 on the Hot 100 with “Die with a Smile,” as she collects her sixth ruler and he adds a ...

It’s time to ring in the Martian New Year with a variety of strange sights on the planet’s Northern Hemisphere.

The space agency will provide a broadcast update on the marquee mission that is intended to recover samples of Martian rock ...

NASA announced Tuesday it had narrowed down to two options the reworked Mars Sample Return mission aiming for a cheaper and ...

After an independent review concluded NASA's plans to robotically collect and return rock and soil samples from Mars could ...

NASA has arrived at two ways of returning samples collected on Mars to Earth. Now, the agency will test the options to see if the cache can make it back in the 2030s.

NASA's Perseverance rover collected samples from Mars and stored them in tubes. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS NASA’s Perseverance rover has been hard at work on Mars, collecting pieces of rock and stowing ...

The Mars Sample Return effort was billions of dollars over budget and not expected to return to Earth with its samples until 2040.