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

To maximize chances of successfully bringing the first Martian rock and sediment samples to Earth for the benefit of humanity ...

Anyone hoping for a clear path forward this year for NASA's imperiled Mars Sample Return mission will have to wait a little ...

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

NASA is pitching a cheaper and quicker way of getting rocks and soil back from Mars. Administrator Bill Nelson presented two ...

NASA's Mars Sample Return mission is only in development and has already struggled. Now, the agency has laid out two paths ...

NASA will analyze and explore two different landing options for its Mars Sample Return program, though it will take almost ...

The soil samples collected by the Mars rover Perseverance are to be scientifically examined on Earth. The costly return ...

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

NASA proposes a quicker, cost-effective plan to bring Mars samples to Earth by 2030, reducing the mission cost from $11 ...

A look back at a few Mars 2020 mission highlights of 2024   Perseverance’s past year operating on the surface of Mars was ...