NASA sees two paths for saving its beleaguered plan to retrieve materials from the Red Planet but won’t choose between them ...

Bringing Martian rock and soil samples to Earth is among the top priorities of planetary scientists. By studying fresh rocks ...

NASA's mission to return samples from Mars and potentially discover the first signs of alien life has a new timeline. The ...

The agency is starting down two different paths toward the samples' return, but only one will bring the red rocks home.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson left a final decision on a new mission architecture to the next NASA administrator working ...

NASA hopes a revised plan will get Mars samples back to Earth faster and cost less than the agency's original plan.

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

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

In April, after an independent review found “near zero probability” of Mars Sample Return making its proposed 2028 launch ...

The space agency said it is considering two options that would cost in the $6 billion to $7 billion range, including one that ...

The Perseverance rover has been collecting Martian rock samples since 2021, but NASA is still figuring out how to bring them ...

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