For more than a year, scientists and aerospace engineers have been awaiting NASA’s decision on how to rescue the troubled ...

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

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

NASA has arrived at two ways of returning samples collected on Mars to Earth. Now, the agency will test the options to see if ...

The Mars Sample Return effort was billions of dollars over budget and not expected to return to Earth with its samples until 2040.

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

Jezero Crater on Mars was once home to a lake, delta and rivers. See an animation of what it could have looked like when water poured into the crater billions of years ago and present day. Credit: ...

The hunt for life on Mars is driven by more than curiosity – it seeks to understand humanity's place in the universe.

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter, which flew on Mars in April 2021, became the first aircraft to achieve powered, controlled flight on a planet other than Earth.