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 ...

Understanding why storms sometimes engulf the entire planet within a layer of grit could prove crucial to future missions.

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 ...

Dozens of samples collected from missions on Mars that could be used to detect ancient microbial life could be returned as ...

An independent review team is delivering a final report to NASA leadership to determine if the agency's Mars Sample Return ...

NASA announced Tuesday it may turn to Elon Musk's SpaceX or Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin to help reduce the soaring costs of ...

NASA announced Tuesday that it is exploring two options to move forward with its mission to return samples from Mars at a lower cost.