NASA officials had an earlier plan to bring the Mars samples back to Earth, but the program slammed into a budgetary ...

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

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

Recent exceptional rock discoveries have only mounted pressure on NASA to solve the problems facing its Mars Sample Return mission, its plan to fly bits of rock, dust, and air collected by ...

Previously, the Mars Sample Return mission had been estimated to cost around 11 billion dollars and would not return a sample ...

The rover will be capable of drilling down into the surface of Mars and collecting rocks at a depth of 6.6 feet (2 meters), which it will then analyze in an onboard laboratory, according to ESA.

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

Space agency says it needs one more year to decide whether its own hardware or a contractor’s will return Martian samples to ...

NASA wants to return Mars samples to Earth, but budget problems and technical woes have the mission caught between a rock and the Red Planet. There appears to be an unofficial robotic space race ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has spotted an oddball rock in an ancient river channel on Mars. Deputy project scientist Katie Stack Morgan explains. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has collected two dozen rock and dust samples from the red planet that may one day answer the ...

New Insights Into How Mars Became Uninhabitable Oct. 7, 2024 — NASA's Curiosity rover, currently exploring Gale crater on Mars, is providing new details about how the ancient Martian climate ...