The Perseverance rover has been collecting Martian rock samples since 2021, but NASA is still figuring out how to bring them ...
NASA hopes a revised plan will get Mars samples back to Earth faster and cost less than the agency's original plan.
NASA on Tuesday announced an overhaul to its plan to collect samples from Mars and return them to Earth. Agency officials ...
Space agency says it needs one more year to decide whether its own hardware or a contractor’s will return Martian samples to ...
The Mars Sample Return mission has been ranked as the highest priority by planetary scientists, who hope to find signs of ancient life on Mars.
The Mars Sample Return effort was billions of dollars over budget and not expected to return to Earth with its samples until 2040.
NASA announced Tuesday that it is exploring two options to move forward with its mission to return samples from Mars at a lower cost.
NASA recently deemed this situation unacceptable. In April 2024, agency chief Bill Nelson announced that an overhaul of the ...
Blue Origin said on Monday that it is looking to launch its New Glenn rocket for the first time to orbit no earlier than Jan.