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

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

Dozens of samples of rock and sediment collected from Mars that could be used to detect ancient microbial life could be ...

Ever since the discovery of methane on Mars, scientists have wondered if the Red Planet might harbor life. Now, researchers ...

Researchers believe dark rocks at the site of a future Mars rover landing mission may be left over from ancient volcanic ...

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 has been committed to the exploration of planet Mars, and now scientists have decided to use nuclear fission energy as ...

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

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

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